Also known as Field No. 22, Bed 29
Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (68.0° N, 135.5° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 64.7° N, 40.1° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Buff Sandstone Member (Lower Sandstone Formation), Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)
• 60-70 ft thick sandstone, an unspecified height above the base of the section; assigned to the Polyptchites (Tollia) cf. tolli biozone; classified as "Buff Sandstone Mbr" of the "lower sandstone division" in Jeletzky (1958); Jeletzky (1958) and Fowler and Braun (1993) assign this unit an Berriasian age.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, brown, gray sandstone
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 55870: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 07.11.2005
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