Upper Cretaceous to lower Palaeocene stratigraphic unit of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin
Scollard Formation
Stratigraphic range: Maastrichtian-Danian ~70–65 Ma
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Scollard Formation exposed along the Red Deer River, Alberta. The Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton on display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology was excavated in the center of image.
Scollard Canyon at Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park
Named by
Irish, E.J.W[2]
Year defined
1970
Scollard Formation (Canada)
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The Scollard Formation is an Upper Cretaceous to lower Palaeocene stratigraphic unit of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in southwestern Alberta.[1][3] Its deposition spanned the time interval from latest Cretaceous to early Paleocene, and it includes sediments that were deposited before, during, and after the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction event. It is significant for its fossil record, and it includes the economically important coal deposits of the Ardley coal zone.
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^Irish, E.J.W., 1970. The Edmonton Group of south-central Alberta; Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists (CSPG), Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, vol. 18, no. 2 (June), pp. 125-155.
^Lexicon of Canadian Geological Units. "Scollard Formation". Archived from the original on 2013-02-21. Retrieved 2009-02-06.
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