Divide Lake (Jurassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (56.2° N, 130.0° W: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 72.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Salmon River Formation, Middle Jurassic (174.1 - 163.5 Ma)

• from Poulton, 1979: "The present writer concurs (with Crickmay, 1930) with the Middle Jurassic determination although a Middle or Late Toarcian age cannot be dismissed."

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by C. H. Crickmay; reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: T. P. Poulton. 1979. Jurassic Trigoniid Bivalves from Canada and Western United States of America. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 282 [G. Stanley/H. Shepherd/H. Shepherd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 139896: authorized by George Stanley, entered by Hannah Shepherd on 20.02.2013

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Vaugonia veronica Crickmay 1930 clam
Holotypes GSC 27715, 27716, Hypotypes GSC 43303, 43304