Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.8° N, 125.2° W: paleocoordinates 56.5° N, 94.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sphenoceramus schmidti inoceramid zone, Pender Formation (Nanaimo Group), Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• Lower Campanian (Sphenoceramus schmidti–Baculites chicoensis zone)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R. Ross
• Repository: Courtenay and District Museum and Paleontology Center, Vancouver Island, Canada (CDM)
Primary reference: K. Tanabe, P. Trask, R. Ross and Y. Hikida. 2008. Late Cretaceous octobrachiate coleoid lower jaws from the north Pacific regions. Journal of Paleontology 82:398-408 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 212864: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.08.2020, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Paleocirroteuthis pacifica n. sp.
Paleocirroteuthis pacifica n. sp. Tanabe 2008 | |
Gastropoda | |
Pyropsis grahami n. sp.
Pyropsis grahami n. sp. Squires 2011 snail |