Renell Junction (G03-Ghost Creek Fm), Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C. (Jurassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (53.4° N, 132.3° W: paleocoordinates 2.1° N, 126.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ghost Creek Formation (imlayi Group), Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 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 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 33131: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 23.07.2003

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Coeloceratidae
Pseudoskirroceras imlayi, Miltoceras aff. sellae
Pseudoskirroceras imlayi Smith and Tipper 1988 ammonite
Miltoceras aff. sellae Gemmellaro 1884 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Polymorphitidae
Gemmellaroceras cf. alloplocum, Polymorphites confusus, Tropidoceras flandrini, Tropidoceras cf. erythraeum
Gemmellaroceras cf. alloplocum Gemmellaro 1884 ammonite
Polymorphites confusus Quenstedt 1856 ammonite
Tropidoceras flandrini Dumortier 1869 ammonite
Tropidoceras flandrini flandrini
Tropidoceras cf. erythraeum Gemmellaro 1884 ammonite