Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (68.1° N, 135.5° W: paleocoordinates 52.2° N, 58.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Almstrom Creek Formation (Bug Creek Group), Sinemurian (199.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; red sandstone
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 34228: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 22.08.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster | |
"Ostrea" sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Meleagrinella sp. Whitfield 1855 scallop
Oxytoma sp. Meek and Hayden 1865 scallop | |
? Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
Kolymonectes sp. Bychkov et al. 1976 scallop | |
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop | |
? Mactra sp. Linnaeus 1767 clam |