Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (68.0° N, 135.4° W: paleocoordinates 52.2° N, 58.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Scho Creek Member (Murray Ridge Formation), Sinemurian (199.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• Fossils loose on Murray Ridge shale, probably from Scho Creek Member. This overturned section was previously described by Jeletzky (1967), Sec. 24, p. 102-104, Pl. 6, fig. 1. See Poulton et al. (1982), Sec. PU-2, 26-76
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the GSC
Collection methods: surface (float),
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 34230: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 22.08.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
? Echioceras sp. Bayle 1878 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pholadomya idea" = Pholadomya (Pholadomya) idea
"Pholadomya idea" = Pholadomya (Pholadomya) idea d'Orbigny 1850 clam |