GSC 39366, Kingak Fm, near Bonnet Lake, northern Yukon (Jurassic of Canada)

Where: Yukon, Canada (68.3° N, 137.7° W: paleocoordinates 55.0° N, 57.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kingak Formation, Hettangian (201.3 - 199.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray sandstone

• sample from the top of a 20 m thick, rusty, light gray sandstone (same as GSC locality 38800)

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: T.P. Poulton. 1991. Hettangian through Aalenian (Jurassic) guide fossils and biostratigraphy, Northern Yukon and adjacent Northwest Territories. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin (410)1-95 [A. Miller/K. Layou/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34181: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 21.08.2003

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Psiloceratidae
Psiloceras cf. johnstoni
Psiloceras cf. johnstoni Sowerby 1824 ammonite
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Carditida - Cardiniidae
Cardinia sp.
Cardinia sp. Agassiz 1841 clam
 Trigoniida - Prosogyrotrigoniidae
Prosogyrotrigonia cf. inouyei