Where: Yukon, Canada (68.0° N, 136.5° W: paleocoordinates 61.7° N, 58.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Manuel Creek Formation (Bug Creek Group), Aalenian (174.1 - 170.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; shale and siltstone
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 34236: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 22.08.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Belemnitida indet. Zittel 1895 belemnite | |
Bivalvia | |
"Inoceramus (Mytiloceramus) cf. polyplocus" = Mytiloceramus polyplocus
"Inoceramus (Mytiloceramus) cf. polyplocus" = Mytiloceramus polyplocus Roemer 1857 clam | |
? Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
Propeamussium (Propeamussium) sp. Dall 1886 mud scallop | |
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop | |
Pleuromya sp. Meek 1873 clam | |
? Gresslya sp. Agassiz 1843 clam |