Escalante Point (Eocene to of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.5° N, 126.5° W: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 110.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Cibicides haydoni zone foram zone, Escalante Formation (Carmanah Group), Bartonian to Bartonian (41.3 - 33.9 Ma)

• Jeletzky (1954) places Kellogg's vertebra in his Division A (=Escalante Formation). Age after Nesbitt (2018).

Environment/lithology: marine; conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. Kellogg. 1936. A Review of the Archaeoceti. Carnegie Institution of Washington 482:1-366 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 55764: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 04.11.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• The cetacean specimen mentioned by Kellogg (1936), Geological Survey of Canada 8748 cannot currently be located (M.D. Uhen 2020).
Foraminifera
 Buliminoidea - Buliminidae
Globobulimina sp.1 Cushman 1927
Nodosariata
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina sp.1 Lamarck 1804
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Cibicididae
 Rotaliida - Nonionidae
 Rotaliida - Gavelinellidae
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
 Buliminacea - Uvigerinidae
Mammalia
 Placentalia -
Cetacea indet.2 Brisson 1762 whale