Slide Hill Beach (Oligocene of Canada)

Also known as NP 131

Where: British Columbia, Canada (48.4° N, 123.9° W: paleocoordinates 48.0° N, 115.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Sooke Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: U. S. Grant and L. G. Hertlein. 1938. The West American Cenozoic Echinoidea. Publications of the University of California at Los Angeles in Mathematical and Physical Sciences 2:1-225 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 203538: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 19.08.2019

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Echinarachniidae
Echinarachnius newcombei Kew 1920 sand dollar
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Fusinus (Priscofusus) hannibali Clark and Arnold 1923 snail
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus sammamishensis Weaver 1912 mussel