T33, Tsable River (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.5° N, 124.9° W: paleocoordinates 53.4° N, 90.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sphenoceramus schmidti inoceramid zone, Haslam Formation, Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• The assemblage lacks Sphenoceramus schmidti (sensu stricto) but does include examples of S. sachalinensis and S. cf. elegans and can thus be correlated with the lower, Sphenoceramus elegans Subzone, of the S. schmidti Zone of Jeletzky (1970).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Dark gray-weathering massive siltstones alternating with lesser, more resistant fine-grained sandstones

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by J. Burgess

• Repository: Royal British Columbia Museum

Primary reference: J. W. Haggart and R. Graham. 2018. The crinoid Marsupites in the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group, British Columbia: resolution of the Santonian-Campanian boundary in the North Pacific Province. Cretaceous Research 87:277-295 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 210544: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.06.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Raninidae
Raninidae indet. de Haan 1833 crab
Gastropoda
 Basommatophora - Siphonariidae
Anisomyon cf. transformis Dundo and Efremova 1974 pulmonate
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus cf. chicoensis Anderson 1958 clam
Sphenoceramus orientalis Sokolov 1914 clam
Sphenoceramus cf. orientalis Sokolov 1914 clam
Sphenoceramus sachalinensis Sokolov 1914 clam
Sphenoceramus cf. elegans Sokolow 1914 clam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Gaudryceras striatum Jimbo 1894 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Damesites ? sugata Forbes 1846 ammonite
"Hauericeras gardeni" = Hauericeras (Gardeniceras) gardeni Baily 1855 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Nostoceratidae
"? Ainoceras sp." = Jouaniceras (Ainoceras)
"? Ainoceras sp." = Jouaniceras (Ainoceras) ammonite
 Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
? Schlueterella sp. Wiedmann 1962 ammonite
Crinoidea
 Comatulida - Marsupitidae
Marsupites sp. Mantell 1821 Feather star
? Marsupites sp. Mantell 1821 Feather star
Marsupites testudinarius Schlotheim 1820 Feather star