Alaska Highway bridge, north bank of the Peace River (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (57.2° N, 122.7° W: paleocoordinates 60.0° N, 74.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Shaftesbury Formation (Fort St. John Group), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Upper part of Shaftesbury.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: I. Walaszczyk and W. A. Cobban. 2016. Inoceramid bivalves and biostratigraphy of the upper Albian and lower Cenomanian of the United States Western Interior Basin. Cretaceous Research 59:30-68 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 234736: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 09.05.2024

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus irenensis n. sp. Warren and Stelck 1958 clam