Collishaw Point, Hornby Island (Freie Universität collection) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.6° N, 124.7° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 58.0° N, 86.9° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Northumberland Formation (Nanaimo Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.6 - 72.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: submarine fan; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S. Hubbart, D. Bowen, G. Beard

• Repository: Institute of Geological Sciences (Freie Universität Berlin).

Primary reference: D. Fuchs, H. Keupp, P. Trask and K. Tanabe. 2012. Taxonomy, morphology and phylogeny of Late Cretaceous spirulid coleoids (Cephalopoda) from Greenland and Canada. 55:285-303 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 212908: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.08.2020

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Spirulida - Groenlandibelidae
Cyrtobelus hornbyense n. sp. Fuchs et al. 2012