Logging road quarry east of Haslam Creek (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.0° N, 123.9° W: paleocoordinates 52.7° N, 90.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Haslam Formation, Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• Haslam Formation strata at this quarry are topographically and structurally higher than the exposures along Haslam Creek itself

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Graham

• 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 210558: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.06.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae
Paosia pentzensis Squires and Saul 2004 snail
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
Acirsa delta Squires and Saul 2003 wentletrap
Crinoidea
 Comatulida - Marsupitidae
Marsupites sp. Mantell 1821 Feather star