Hornby Island (Harvey collection) (Cretaceous to of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.5° N, 124.7° W: paleocoordinates 56.4° N, 96.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Spray Formation (Nanaimo Group), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• Probably the marine Spray Formation but possibly the older Northumberland Formation; late Campanian to early Maastrichtian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. Harvey; reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical

Primary reference: H. Woodward. 1900. Further notes on podophthalmous crustaceans from the Upper Cretaceous Formation of British Columbia, etc. The Geological Magazine, Decade IV 7:433-435 [C. Schweitzer/L. Baltzly/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123792: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Carrie Schweitzer on 29.01.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Erymidae
Enoploclytia minor n. sp. Woodward 1900 decapod
 Decapoda - Mecochiridae
Meyeria harveyi n. sp. Woodward 1900 decapod