Troitsa Ridge, Smithers Formation, level Tr 1 (Jurassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (53.6° N, 127.1° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 38.9° N, 55.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Smithers Formation (Hazelton Group), Aalenian (174.7 - 170.9 Ma)

• late Aalenian, approx. 22 m from bottom of section

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; tuffaceous shale and shelly/skeletal, sandy siltstone

• minor felsic volcanic units interbedded in a predominantly sedimentary sequence. fossils collected from an 8 m thick soft, well-bedded, felsic, waterlain crystal-lithic tuff interbedded with brown, fossiliferous siltstone and fine-grained sandstone.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Palfy, P. L. Smith, and J. K. Mortensen. 2000. A U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar time scale for the Jurassic. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 37(6):923-944 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37612: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 18.03.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
Troitsaia westermanni