GSC loc. C-53514 - Ashcroft (Jurassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (50.8° N, 121.2° W: paleocoordinates 8.2° N, 64.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• Kunae Zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: mechanical,

• H. W. Tipper, 1978.

Primary reference: M. Aberhan. 1998. Early Jurassic Bivalvia of western Canada. Part I. Subclasses Palaeotaxodonta, Pteriomorpha, and Isofilibranchia. Beringeria 21:57-150 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 53178: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 07.09.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Carditida - Astartidae
? Astartidae indet.1 d'Orbigny 1844 clam
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigoniidae indet. Lamarck 1819 clam
Poulton
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillaria pallas Leanza 1942 oyster
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Weyla sp.2 Böhm 1920 scallop
Weyla (Weyla) bodenbenderi Behrendsen 1891 scallop
Weyla (Lywea) unca Philippi 1899 scallop