GSC C-118594, Harrison Lake (Jurassic of Canada)

Also known as MVA(F)85-30

Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.3° N, 121.8° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 34.0° N, 45.0° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Francis Lake Member (Harrison Lake Formation), Late/Upper Toarcian (180.4 - 174.7 Ma)

• Early Jurassic (Late Toarcian) based on the ammonites.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, brown shale

• Non-calcareous dark brown shale

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: A. J. Arthur, P. L. Smith, J. W. H. Monger and H. W. Tipper. 1993. Mesozoic stratigraphy and Jurassic paleontology west of Harrison Lake, southwestern British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 441:1-62 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 185046: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.04.2017

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
Dumortieria cf. insignisimilis Braun 1867 ammonite
Dumortieria cf. levesquei d'Orbigny 1844 ammonite
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam