Escalante Point, near (Oligocene to of Canada)

Where: British Colombia, Canada (49.5° N, 126.6° W: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 114.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Turrilina alsatica zone foram zone, Hesquiat Formation (Carmanah Group), Rupelian to Rupelian (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

• Age after Nesbitt (2018.

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Nyborg, B. Nyborg, A. Garassino and F. J. Vega. 2016. New occurrences of fossil Macrocheira (Brachyura, Inachidae) from the North Eastern Pacific. Paleontologia Mexicana 5(2):123-135 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 58090: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 17.01.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Macrocheiridae
Macrocheira jayi n. sp. Nyborg et al. 2016 spider crab
Foraminifera
  - Chilostomellidae
 Buliminoidea - Buliminidae
Globobulimina sp. Cushman 1927
 Rotaliina - Islandiellidae
Cassidulinoides sp. Cushman 1927
 Rotaliina - Bolivinidae
 Rotaliina - Cassidulinidae
Cassidulina globosa Hantken 1875
Nodosariata
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804
 Nodosariida - Stilostomellidae
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
 Polymorphinida - Plectofrondiculariidae
Plectofrondicularia packardi Cushman and Schenck 1928
subspecies multilineata
Foraminifera
 Globigerinina - Chiloguembelinidae
 Globigerinoidea - Globigerinitidae
"Globorotalia gemma" = Tenuitella gemma
"Globorotalia gemma" = Tenuitella gemma Jenkins 1966
 Globigerinoidea - Globigerinidae
Globigerina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
 Lituolacea - Ataxophragmiidae
Martinottiella eocenica Cushman and Bermudez 1947
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Nonionidae
 Rotaliida - Cibicididae
 Rotaliida - Anomalinidae
Anomalina cf. californiensis Cushman and Hobson 1935
 Rotaliida - Gavelinellidae
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae