Also known as Manning Provincial Park; GSC C-128986
Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.0° N, 121.0° W: paleocoordinates 38.9° N, 69.2° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)
• thought to represent one of two arbitrarily separated out biostratigraphic assemblages from within "a narrow stratigraphic interval" about 50 m thick that is within the informally defined "Thunder Lake Sequence"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; medium-grained, hematitic, black, muddy sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the GSC
Collection methods: surface (float)
• fossils "were collected from talus derived from bluffs"
Primary reference: T. P. Poulton, A. Zeiss, and J. A. Jeletzky. 1988. New molluscan faunas of the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian and Early Tithonian) of western Canada. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 379:103-115 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 114690: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 20.08.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Ochetoceras (Suboxydiscites) manningense n. sp. ammonite | |
Physodoceras sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite | |
Phylloceras cf. mazenoti ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Camptonectes (Mclearnia) sp. Meek 1864 scallop | |
Buchia (Anaucella) concentrica White 1888 scallop |