Whiteaves Bay (D10-Ghost Creek Fm), Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C. (Jurassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (53.2° N, 132.0° W: paleocoordinates 1.8° N, 126.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ghost Creek Formation (Maude Group), Whiteavesi (189.6 - 186.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siltstone and mudstone

• for entire formation: dark pyritic shales, occasional sandstones and nodular limestones are present and the top of the formation becomes locally glauconitic in the north. oil stains and bitumen are pervasive (sample taken from siltstone/mudstone horizon)

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: P. L. Smith and H. W. Tipper. 1996. Pliensbachian (Lower Jurassic) ammonites of the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. Bulletins of American Paleontology 108(348):1-122 [A. Miller/K. Layou/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32850: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 16.07.2003

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Eoderoceratidae
"Metaderoceras evolutum" = Metaderoceras gemmellaroi evolutum
"Metaderoceras evolutum" = Metaderoceras gemmellaroi evolutum Fucini 1924 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Polymorphitidae
Tropidoceras actaeon, Tropidoceras masseanum
Tropidoceras actaeon d'Orbigny 1844 ammonite
Tropidoceras masseanum d'Orbigny 1844 ammonite
Tropidoceras masseanum rotunda