GSC loc. 40941 - Moresby Island (Jurassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (52.5° N, 131.5° W: paleocoordinates 0.4° S, 126.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sinemurian (199.3 - 190.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: mechanical,

• A. Sutherland Brown, 1959.

Primary reference: M. Aberhan. 1998. Early Jurassic Bivalvia of western Canada. Part I. Subclasses Palaeotaxodonta, Pteriomorpha, and Isofilibranchia. Beringeria 21:57-150 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 53293: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 08.09.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Weyla (Weyla) alata von Buch 1838 scallop
Weyla (Weyla) meeki Damborenea 1987 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
? Antiquilima sp. Cox 1943 file clam
sp. A