GSC C-196931, Cumshewa Inlet: Late/Upper Albian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Anagaudryceras sacya (Forbes 1846)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Puzosia skidegatensis McLearn 1972
Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella) bearskinense McLearn 1972
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
Pliosauridae indet. Seeley 1874
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:British Columbia
Coordinates: 53.0° North, 131.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.4° North, 86.3° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Albian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 4
Key time interval:Late/Upper Albian
Age range of interval:106.20000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Age determination from associated ammonites at locality
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine silty sandstone
Secondary lithology: silty siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: silty fine-grained sandstone and siltstone
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:TMP
Metadata
Database number:126235
Authorizer:M. Vavrek Enterer:M. Vavrek
Modifier:M. Vavrek
Created:2012-03-31 14:09:30 Last modified:2012-03-30 22:16:42
Access level:the public Released:2012-03-31 14:09:30
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
41000. J. W. Haggart, E. L. Nicholls, and R. Bartlett. 2003. The first record of a pliosaurid (Plesiosauria, Pliosauridae) from the Lower Cretaceous of North America. Cretaceous Research 24(2):129-133 [M. Vavrek/M. Vavrek]