Where: British Columbia, Canada (53.3° N, 132.0° W: paleocoordinates 22.9° N, 110.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Haida Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the lower sandstone member of the Haida Fm, which rests unconformably on massive agglomerate of the Jurassic Yakoun Fm, and is overlain by the shale member, which passes up into the Honna Fm. AGE: Albian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 370-1080 ft above base of local section.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, conglomeratic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by McLearn; reposited in the GSC
• COLLECTOR: F. H. McLearn. REPOSITORY: Geological Survey of Canada (GSC).
Primary reference: F. H. McLearn. 1972. Ammonoids of the lower Cretaceous sandstone member of the Haida Formation, Skidgate Inlet, Queen Charlotte Islands, western British Columbia. Geological Bulletin of Canada Bulletin 188:1-78 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 87475: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Desmoceras (Pseudoughligella) cf. alamoense Anderson 1958 ammonite | |
Tetragonites subtimotheanus, "Tetragonites aff. kitchini" = Tetragonites (Tetragonites) kitchini, Anagaudryceras sacya
Tetragonites subtimotheanus Wiedmann 1962 ammonite
"Tetragonites aff. kitchini" = Tetragonites (Tetragonites) kitchini Krenkel 1910 ammonite
Anagaudryceras sacya Forbes 1846 ammonite |