Whiteaves Bay, Skidegate Inlet; GSC loc. C-305398 (Jurassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (53.2° N, 132.0° W: paleocoordinates 2.3° N, 126.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Whiteavesi ammonoid zone, Ghost Creek Formation, Early/Lower Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• Limestone lens collected 14.2 m above base of formation

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

• limestone lens

Size class: microfossils

Collected by E. S. Carter

• 00-CNA-WB-3

Primary reference: E. S. Carter, S. Goričan, J. Guex, L. O'Dogherty, P. De Wever, P. Dumitrica, R. S. Hori, A. Matsuoka, and P. A. Whalen. 2010. Global radiolarian zonation for the Pliensbachian, Toarcian and Aalenian. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 297:401-419 [J. Pálfy/A. Kocsis/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119712: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Adam Kocsis on 01.11.2011

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Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
Cyclastrum "sp. A" Rüst 1898 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae
Pseudopantanellium floridum Yeh 1987 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Bagotidae
Canutus baumgartneri Yeh 1987 radiolarian
Canutus ex gr. tipperi Pessagno and Whalen 1982 radiolarian