West side of Inland Highway (locality 1) (Cretaceous of Canada)

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
 Octobrachia -
Paleocirroteuthis pacifica n. sp. Tanabe 2008
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Pyropsidae
Pyropsis grahami n. sp. Squires 2011 snail