Also known as Field No. 22, Bed 13

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (68.0° N, 135.5° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 59.6° N, 44.0° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Lower Shale-Siltstone Formation), Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• 48 ft thick siltstone, 306.5-319 ft above the base of the section; assigned to the Aucella fischeri-Aucella trigonalis biozone; classified as "Lower Mbr" of the "lower shale-siltstone division" in Jeletzky (1958); Jeletzky (1958) assigns this unit an upper Tithonian age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, concretionary, gray, sandy siltstone and poorly lithified, concretionary, silty sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

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 55876: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 07.11.2005

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