GSC loc. C-157663 - Taseko Lakes: Hettangian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Meleagrinella sp. Whitfield 1855
Aberhan 1995
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillella leesi Aberhan and Muster 1997
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:British Columbia
Coordinates: 51.1° North, 123.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:21.6° North, 66.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Hettangian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
Key time interval:Hettangian
Age range of interval:201.40000 - 199.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
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: H. W. Tipper, 1984.
Metadata
Database number:53202
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-09-07 03:10:55 Last modified:2005-10-07 23:34:31
Access level:the public Released:2005-09-07 03:10:55
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:

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