Whitemud
Description
Source: Wikipédia
The Whitemud Formation is a geologic formation of Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. it is present through the plains of southern Saskatchewan, southeastern Alberta and south-central Alberta. Named by N.B. Davis in 1918, the formation is characterized by white kaolinitic clay and is a source of high-quality refractory clay. The type locality has been designated as Dempster's clay pit northwest of Eastend, Saskatchewan.
Although fossils are generally lacking in the Whitemud Formation, in southern Saskatchewan the Whitemud contains coprolites (fossilized feces) and fossilized intestines of fish.
Découvertes
Source: The Paleobiology Database
Site(s) correspondant(s) à cette formation: 2
kaolin quarry, between Willows and Readlyn : Saskatchewan - ? 59345 59346 from a kaolin quarry between Willows and Readlyn; S 1/2 of sec 33, twp 7, range 28W2M- Medalta pit : Saskatchewan - ? 59345 59346 Medalta pit, kaolin quarry, 3 km NE of Willows, in the NE 1/4 of sec. 1, T8, R29, W of 2nd meridian.
Publication(s)
La base comprend 2 publication(s).
Source: The Paleobiology Database
- ↑1 2 3 4 P. L. Broughton, F. Simpson, and S. H. Whitaker. 1978. Late Cretaceous coprolites from western Canada. Palaeontology 21(2):443-453
- ↑1 2 P. L. Broughton. 1981. Casts of vertebrate internal organs from the Upper Cretaceous of western Canada. Journal of Geology 89(6):741-749 (https://doi.org/10.1086/628639)