No. 1 shaft, Nanaimo (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.2° N, 123.9° W: paleocoordinates 55.6° N, 93.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• No stratigraphic details given, but only mined coal in the Nanaimo sub-basin occurred in the Extension and Pender formations.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Harvey; reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: J. F. Whiteaves. 1903. Mesozoic Fossils, Volume I. Part V - On Some Additional Fossils from the Vancouver Cretaceous, with a Revised List of the Species Therefrom 309-415 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 140564: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 12.03.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Glypheidae
Glyphea sp. Von Meyer 1835 decapod