CANADA

NUNAVUT

AXEL HEIBERG ISLAND

EXPEDITION FJORD

UNDERLYING KANGUK SHALE

AND OVERLYING THE SUBAERIALLY-ERUPTED STRAND FJORD FORMATION

TURONIAN STAGE

UPPERMOST GALLIC SUBEPOCH

LOWER GULF EPOCH

LATE CRETACEOUS

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: AVES LINNAEUS, 1758

SUBCLASS: SAURORNITHES NICHOLSON, 1879

AVEBREVICAUDA PAUL, 2001

INFRACLASS: ORNITHOTHORACES NOVA

LEGION: ORNITHURAE NOVA

Incertae sedis

*Tingmiatornis arctica

 

_____________________________________________________________________________________

CANADA

NUNAVUT TERRITORY

AXEL HEIBERG ISLAND

EXPEDITION FJORD

THIN 3 M SILTSTONE AND SHALE LAYER ABOVE SUBAERAL FLOOD BASALTS OF THE STRAND FJORD FORMATION, AND BELOW THE MARINE DEPOSITES OF THE KANGUK FORMATION

UPPER TURONIAN STAGE

UPPERMOST GALLIC SUBEPOCH-CONIACIAN STAGE

LOWERMOST SENONIAN SUBEPOCH

LOWER GULF EPOCH

EARLY LATE CRETACEOUS

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: CHELONOMORPHA KUHN, 1960

SUPERCOHORT: TESTUDINES LINNAEUS, 1758

COHORT: CASICHELYDIA emend GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988

MAGANORDER: CRYPTODIRA GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988

SUPERORDER: SELMACRYPTODIRA GAFFNEY, HUTCHISON, JENKINS & MEEKR, 1987

GRANDORDER: DAIOCRYPTODIRA GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988

MICRORDER: CENTROCRYPTODIRA GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988

ORDER: POLYCRPTODIRA GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988

SUBORDER: PROCOELOCRYPTODIRA GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988

INFRAORDER: CHELOMACRYPTODIRA GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988

PARVORDER: TRIONYCHIDA GRAY, 1870

Superfamily: TRIONYCHIDEA Bell, 1828 (sensu Gray, 1870)

Family: MACROBAENIDAE Sukarou, 1964

*Aurorachelys gaffneyi

_____________________________________________________________________________________

CANADIAN HIGH ARTIC

NORTHERN TERRITORY

QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS

AXEL HEIBERG ISLAND

NEAR EXPEDITION FIORD

BASE OF THE KANGUK SHALE

UPPER TURONIAN STAGE

UPPERMOST GALLIC SUBEPOCH-CONIACIAN STAGE

LOWERMOST SENONIAN SUBEPOCH

LOWER GULF EPOCH

LATE CRETACEOUS

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: CHELONOMORPHA KUHN, 1960

SUPERCOHORT: TESTUDINES LINNAEUS, 1758

Incertae sedis

Gen. sp indet.

COHORT: CASICHELYDIA emend GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988

MAGANORDER: CRYPTODIRA GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988

SUPERORDER: SELMACRYPTODIRA GAFFNEY, HUTCHISON, JENKINS & MEEKR, 1987

GRANDORDER: DAIOCRYPTODIRA GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988

MICRORDER: EUCRYPTODIRA GAFFNEY, 1975

Incerate sedis

*Borealochelys axelheibergensis

MICRORDER: CENTROCRYPTODIRA GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988

ORDER: POLYCRPTODIRA GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988

SUBORDER: PROCOELOCRYPTODIRA GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988

INFRAORDER: CHELOMACRYPTODIRA GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988

PARVORDER: TRIONYCHIDA GRAY, 1870

Superfamily: TRIONYCHIDEA Bell, 1828 (sensu Gray, 1870)

Family: TRIONYCHIDAE Bell, 1828

Gen. sp indet.

_____________________________________________________________________________________

CANADIAN HIGH ARTIC

NORTHERN TERRITORY

QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS

AXEL HEIBERG ISLAND

BASE OF THE KANGUK SHALE

UPPER TURONIAN STAGE

UPPERMOST GALLIC SUBEPOCH-CONIACIAN STAGE

LOWERMOST SENONIAN SUBEPOCH

LOWER GULF EPOCH

LATE CRETACEOUS

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: CHELONOMORPHA KUHN, 1960

SUPERCOHORT: TESTUDINES LINNAEUS, 1758

COHORT: CASICHELYDIA emend GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988

MAGANORDER: CRYPTODIRA GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988

SUPERORDER: SELMACRYPTODIRA GAFFNEY, HUTCHISON, JENKINS & MEEKR, 1987

GRANDORDER: DAIOCRYPTODIRA GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988

MICRORDER: CENTROCRYPTODIRA GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988

ORDER: POLYCRPTODIRA GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988

SUBORDER: PROCOELOCRYPTODIRA GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988

INFRAORDER: CHELOMACRYPTODIRA GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988

PARVORDER: TRIONYCHIDA GRAY, 1870

Superfamily: TRIONYCHIDEA Bell, 1828 (sensu Gray, 1870)

Family: TRIONYCHIDAE Bell, 1828

Gen. sp indet.

Family: MACROBAENIDAE Sukarou, 1964

Gen. sp indet.

MICRORDER: EUCRYPTODIRA GAFFNEY, 1975

Incerate sedis

Gen. sp indet.

SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1904

INFRACLASS: EURYAPSIDA COLBERT, 1945

SUPERORDER: SAUROPTERYGIA OWEN 1860

GRANDORDER: EOSAUROPTERYGIA emend RIEPPEL, 1994

ORDER: PLESIOSAURIA OWEN, 1840 NON BLAINVILLE, 1835

SUBORDER: PLESIOSAURIA OWEN, 1840 NON BLAINVILLE, 1835

INFRAORDER: PLESIOSAUROMORPHA NOVA

EUPLESIOSAURIA O’KEEFE, 2001

Superfamily: ELASMOSAUROIDEA Cope, 1869

Family: ELASMOSAURIDAE Cope, 1869

Incertae sedis

Gen. sp. indet.

SUPERLEGION: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985

LEGION: ARCHOSAUROMORPHA HUENE, 1946

SUPERCOHORT CHORISTODERA NOVA

ORDER: CHORISTODERA COPE, 1876

Family: CHAMPSOSAURIDAE Cope, 1884

Incertae sedis

Gen. sp indet.

CLASS: AVES LINNAEUS, 1758

Incertae sedis

Gen. sp indet.

_____________________________________________________________________________________