Kanguk
Description
Source: Wikipédia
The Kanguk Formation is a geological formation in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Canada whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.
It was first described in the Kanguk Peninsula of the Axel Heiberg Island, along the shore of the Stand Fiord by Souther in 1963. The formation occurs throughout the Sverdrup Basin and the southern Queen Elizabeth Islands.
Découvertes
Source: The Paleobiology Database
Site(s) correspondant(s) à cette formation: 4
Ellesmere Island Kanguk Fm : Nunavut - ? 9532 SW Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Isl. - Bylot Island [SCDP] : Nunavut - ? 54137 62064 68933 Bylot Island, off the northern end of Baffin Island in Nunavut Territory, Canada
- May Point : Nunavut - Axel Heiberg Island 50615
- Bylot Island : Nunavut - ? 68933 Bylot Island, off the northern end of Baffin Island in Nunavut Territory, Canada
Publication(s)
La base comprend 5 publication(s).
Source: The Paleobiology Database
- ↑1 2 L. V. Hills, E. L. Nicholls, and L. M. Nunez-Betelu, D. J. McIntyre. 1999. Hesperornis (Aves) from Ellesmere Island and palynological correlation of known Canadian localities. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 36:1583-1588 (https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-36-9-1583)
- ↑1 2 P. J. Currie. 1997. Sino-Canadian Dinosaur Project. Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs
- ↑1 T. H. Rich, R. A. Gangloff, and W. R. Hammer. 1997. Polar dinosaurs. Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs
- ↑1 2 3 R. A. Gangloff. 2012. Dinosaurs Under the Aurora (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibs.2011.11.003)
- ↑1 2 M. J. Vavrek, L. V. Hills, and P. J. Currie. 2014. A hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Kanguk Formation of Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada, and its ecological and geographical implications. Arctic 67(1):1-9 (https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic4362)
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