Ashnola chert site (above) (Eocene of Canada)
Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.3° N, 120.6° W: paleocoordinates 53.0° N, 107.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: fluvial; shale
• hard black siliceous shale immediately overlying an outcrop of interbedded carbonaceous chert and coal
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by Basinger, Wilson
Primary reference: M. V. H. Wilson. 1982. A new species of the fish Amia from the middle Eocene of British Columbia. Palaeontology 25(2):413-424 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 189959: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 23.11.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• carbonized plant fossils including stems, twigs, dicotyledonous leaves, taxodiaceous leafy shoots, seeds, ferns and amber noted in shales.
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| Reptilia | |
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Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle | |
| Actinopteri | |
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Libotonius sp. Wilson 1977 | |
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Amyzon sp. Cope 1872 carp-like fish | |
Amia hesperia n. sp.
Amia hesperia n. sp. Wilson 1982 bowfin | |