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 | |
Paosia pentzensis Squires and Saul 2004 snail | |
Acirsa delta Squires and Saul 2003 wentletrap | |
Crinoidea | |
Marsupites sp. Mantell 1821 Feather star |