Also known as MVA(F)85-24
Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.5° N, 121.9° W: paleocoordinates 42.5° N, 63.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Macrocephalites macrocephalus ammonoid zone, Mysterious Creek Formation, Early/Lower Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)
• Early Callovian (Macrocephalus Zone of Europe) belonging in Callomon's (1984) Fauna B8(e). Locality 18 lies several tens of metres stratigraphically above locality 17
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, green sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the GSC
Primary reference: A. J. Arthur, P. L. Smith, J. W. H. Monger and H. W. Tipper. 1993. Mesozoic stratigraphy and Jurassic paleontology west of Harrison Lake, southwestern British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 441:1-62 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 185053: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.04.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Cadoceras sp. ammonite
Cadoceras (Pseudocadoceras) cf. catostoma Pompeckj 1900 ammonite | |
Belemnitida indet. Zittel 1895 belemnite |