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
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 | |
Raninidae indet. de Haan 1833 crab | |
Gastropoda | |
Anisomyon cf. transformis Dundo and Efremova 1974 pulmonate | |
Bivalvia | |
Inoceramus cf. chicoensis, Sphenoceramus orientalis, Sphenoceramus cf. orientalis, Sphenoceramus sachalinensis, Sphenoceramus cf. elegans
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 | |
Gaudryceras striatum Jimbo 1894 ammonite | |
Damesites ? sugata, "Hauericeras gardeni" = Hauericeras (Gardeniceras) gardeni
Damesites ? sugata Forbes 1846 ammonite
"Hauericeras gardeni" = Hauericeras (Gardeniceras) gardeni Baily 1855 ammonite | |
"? Ainoceras sp." = Jouaniceras (Ainoceras)
"? Ainoceras sp." = Jouaniceras (Ainoceras) ammonite | |
? Ryugasella sp. ammonite
? Schlueterella sp. Wiedmann 1962 ammonite | |
Crinoidea | |
Marsupites sp. Mantell 1821 Feather star
? Marsupites sp. Mantell 1821 Feather star
Marsupites testudinarius Schlotheim 1820 Feather star |