Shelter Point, Nanaimo Group (Cretaceous to of Canada)
Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.9° N, 125.2° W: paleocoordinates 56.9° N, 96.3° W)
When: Spray Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: B. C. Richards. 1975. Longusorbis cuniculosus: A New Genus and Species of Upper Cretaceous Crab; with Comments on Spray Formation at Shelter Point, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 12(11):1850-1863 [M. Clapham/A. Dalal]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 235453: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Anya Dalal on 09.07.2024
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Cephalopoda | |
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Phyllopachyceras forbesianum d'Orbigny 1850 ammonite | |
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Pachydiscus cf. suciaensis ammonite | |
Pseudophyllites indra, "Epigoniceras sp." = Tetragonites
Pseudophyllites indra Forbes 1846 ammonite
"Epigoniceras sp." = Tetragonites Kossmat 1895 ammonite | |
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Baculites inornatus Meek 1862 ammonite | |
| Gastropoda | |
"Fulguraria sp." = Fulgoraria
"Fulguraria sp." = Fulgoraria Schumacher 1817 volute | |
| Scaphopoda | |
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Entalis cooperi tusk shell | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Inoceramus spp. Sowerby 1814 clam | |
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? Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
"Glycymeris cf. veatchii" = Glycymerita veatchii
"Glycymeris cf. veatchii" = Glycymerita veatchii Gabb 1864 clam | |
"Cucullaea cf. truncata" = Cucullaea (Cyphoxis) truncata
"Cucullaea cf. truncata" = Cucullaea (Cyphoxis) truncata Gabb 1864 clam | |
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Pterotrigonia cf. evansana Meek 1864 clam | |
| Malacostraca | |
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Callianassa sp. Leach 1814 decapod | |
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Longusorbis cuniculosus Richards 1975 crab | |