Maude Island (E16-Ghost Creek Fm), Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C. (Jurassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (53.2° N, 132.1° W: paleocoordinates 2.0° N, 126.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ghost Creek Formation (Maude 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 stains and bitumen are pervasive (sample collected 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 33214: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 24.07.2003

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Coeloceratidae
Pseudoskirroceras imlayi
Pseudoskirroceras imlayi Smith and Tipper 1988 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Polymorphitidae
Gemmellaroceras cf. alloplocum
Gemmellaroceras cf. alloplocum Gemmellaro 1884 ammonite