Horseshoe Canyon

196 occ. 56 taxa (12 genera) 1 countries

Description

The Horseshoe Canyon Formation is a stratigraphic unit of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in southwestern Alberta. It takes its name from Horseshoe Canyon, an area of badlands near Drumheller.

Genera

12 genera

Valid 3 occ. · 155 Ma

Valid 2 occ. · 155 Ma

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Horseshoe Canyon Formation exposed in Horseshoe Canyon near Drumheller, Alberta © Anky-man 16:33, 16 April 2007 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikipedia

Temporal range

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

Paleogene

Neogene

252 201 145 66 0 Ma

Geological group / Member

Edmonton 82

Edmonton / Horsethief 48

Edmonton / Tolman 43

Edmonton / Morrin/Tolman 8

Edmonton / Morrin 7

Edmonton / Drumheller 4

Edmonton / Bleriot 1

Edmonton / Carbon 1

Top countries

🇨🇦 Canada 196

Depositional environments

Terrestrial indet. 126

Coarse channel fill 20

Wet floodplain 16

Channel 10

Crevasse splay 8

Coastal indet. 7

Floodplain 6

Fluvial-lacustrine indet. 2

Marine indet. 1

Top collectors

B. Brown 51

P. Kaisen 23

Brinkman 18

Kaisen 17

P. Currie 15

Sternberg 15

Olsen 14

G. F. Sternberg 9

C. M. Sternberg 8

W. Langston 7

L. Sternberg 6

G. Lindblad 4

Collection activity by decade

1880s 1

1910s 65

1920s 15

1930s 5

1960s 2

1970s 4

1980s 18

1990s 53

2000s 53

2010s 25