Bed 10, Section 1 - Lower shale-siltstone division, Aklavik Range (Jurassic of Canada)

Also known as Field No. 22, Bed 10

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (68.0° N, 135.5° W: paleocoordinates 67.4° N, 65.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• 27 ft thick shale, 123.5-134.5 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, gray shale and lithified, fine-grained, sandy siltstone

• No environmental data reported.
• Shale, light to dark grey, fissile, flaky weathering, interbedded with layers of similar but harder siltstone and very silty, fine-grained 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 55878: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 07.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

• Collection appears not to be exhaustive.
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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Aucella cf. fischeri, "Aucella piochii" = Buchia piochii, "Aucella ex gr. russiensis" = Buchia piochii
Aucella cf. fischeri Pavlow 1907 scallop
"Aucella piochii" = Buchia piochii Gabb 1864 scallop
"Aucella ex gr. russiensis" = Buchia piochii Gabb 1864 scallop