Also known as Bed 10, Field No. 138
Where: Yukon, Canada (67.9° N, 137.3° W: paleocoordinates 69.6° N, 68.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Sandstone Formation, Valanginian (139.8 - 132.9 Ma)
• 80 ft thick shale, about 1932 ft above base of section; classified as "lower sandstone division" in Jeletzky (1961); Jeletzky (1961) assigns this unit a lower Valanginian age.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, gray, sandy siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the GSC
Collection methods: surface (float),
• Collections presumably reposited in Geological Survey of Canada.
Primary reference: J. A. Jeletzky. 1961. Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous rocks, west flank of Richardson Mountains between the headwaters of Blow River and Bell RIver, Yukon Territory. Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 61(9):1-27 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 55939: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.11.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Buchia volgensis Lahusen 1888 scallop |