GSC C-197027, Miner's Bay, Sidney Island (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (48.6° N, 123.3° W: paleocoordinates 51.6° N, 83.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tragodesmoceras ashlandicum ammonoid zone, Sidney Island Formation, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by J.W. Haggart in 1993; reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: J. W. Haggart, P. D. Ward, and W. Orr. 2005. Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) lithostratigraphy and biochronology, southern Gulf Islands, British Columbia, and northern San Juan Islands, Washington State. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 42:2001-2020 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 210518: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.06.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Muniericeratidae
Tragodesmoceras ashlandicum Anderson 1902 ammonite