South side of Maude Island (Jurassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (53.2° N, 132.1° W: paleocoordinates 2.3° N, 126.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fanninoceras ammonoid zone, Maude Formation, Early/Lower Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• Fannioceras occurs during the early Pliensbachian according to Frebold 1967

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, sandy limestone

• light grey-weathering sandy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: C. H. Crickmay. 1933. Attempt to Zone the North American Jurassic on the Basis of its Brachiopods. Geological Society America Bulletin 44:871-894 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 164635: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 08.12.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
"Rhynchonella" maudensis n. sp. Whiteaves 1884
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae