GSC C-118569, Cascade Peninsula (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as MVA(F)85-150

Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.4° N, 121.8° W: paleocoordinates 46.2° N, 68.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Buchia uncitoides other zone, Peninsula Formation, Middle Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

• Lower part of Buchia uncitoides Zone and middle Berriasian in terms of international standard stages

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, gray sandstone

• Fine grained grey sandstone

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 185066: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.04.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Belemnoidea -
Belemnitida indet. Zittel 1895 belemnite
"Generically indeterminate, Cylindroteuthis-like belemnites"
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia uncitoides Pavlow 1907 scallop
var. spasskensoides and acutistriata
Buchia okensis Pavlow 1907 scallop