GSC loc. 88604 - Smithers: Late/Upper Sinemurian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys (Chlamys) textoria (Schlotheim 1820)
recombined as Chlamys textoria
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Neitheidae
Weyla sp. Böhm 1920
Aberhan 1995
Weyla (Weyla) alata (von Buch 1838)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium (Entolium) corneolum (Young and Bird 1828)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma semicircularis (Goldfuss 1835)
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida
Ostreoida indet. Fërussac 1822
Aberhan 1993
corrected as Ostreida
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillella leesi Aberhan and Muster 1997
1 individual
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucinidae indet. Fleming 1828
Aberhan 1993
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya sp. Sowerby 1823
Aberhan 1993
Homomya sp. Agassiz 1843
Aberhan 1993
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Kalenteridae
? Myoconcha sp. Sowerby 1824
Aberhan 1993
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigoniidae indet. Lamarck 1819
Aberhan 1993
unclassified
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Aberhan 1993
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Aberhan 1993
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Aberhan 1993
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:British Columbia
Coordinates: 54.4° North, 127.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.1° North, 69.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Sinemurian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
Key time interval:Late/Upper Sinemurian
Age range of interval:199.50000 - 192.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Lower green volcanic unit; Late Sinemurian probably
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:mechanical,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:GSC
Collection method comments: T. P. Poulton, 1971.
Metadata
Database number:53199
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-09-07 02:56:52 Last modified:2005-09-27 03:08:56
Access level:the public Released:2005-09-07 02:56:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

14361. 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]

Secondary references:

14836 M. Aberhan. 1993. [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]
14835 M. Aberhan. 1995. [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]