Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (78.7° N, 103.0° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 65.1° N, 3.7° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Deer Bay Formation, Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Deer Bay Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: lower upper Valanginian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the upper Deer Bay Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the GSC
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Not stated in text. REPOSITORY: Geological Survey of Canada (GSC).
Primary reference: E. Kemper and J. A. Jeletzky. 1979. New stratigraphically and phylogenetically important Olcostephanid (Ammonitida) taxa from the uppermost Lower and Upper Valanginian of Sverdrup Basin. Geological Society of Canada Paper 79(19):1-25 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 87738: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Buchia crassicollis Keyserling 1846 scallop |