Bed 1, Section 5 - Lower Shale-Siltstone Division, Aklavik Range (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Field No. 16, Bed 1

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (67.9° N, 135.4° W: paleocoordinates 68.4° N, 66.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Lower Shale-Siltstone Formation), Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• 5 ft of siltstone, 5 ft above base of section; from Polyptychites (Tollia) cf. tolli biozone; classified as "upper member" of "lower shale-siltstone division" in Jeletzky (1958); Jeletzky (1958) assigns this biozone a Berriasian age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, gray, blue, sandy siltstone

• No environmental data available.
• Siltstone, dark grey, weathers bluish grey with rusty specks, sandy to very sandy, friable.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by Jeletzky; presumably reposited in GSC collections .

Primary reference: J. A. Jeletzky. 1958. Uppermost Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks of Aklavik Range, Northeastern Richardson Mountains, Northwest Territories. Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 58(2):1-84 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55846: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 06.11.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Collection appears not to be exhaustive.
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
"Aucella volgensis" = Buchia volgensis
"Aucella volgensis" = Buchia volgensis Lahusen 1888 scallop