GSC loc. C-90519 - Spatsizi River (Jurassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (57.5° N, 128.9° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 71.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cold Fish Volcanics Formation (Hazelton Group), Early/Lower Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• The Hazelton Group is a thick assemblage of basaltic to rhyolitic volcanics, sedimentary rocks, their tuffaceous equivalents, and minor limestone.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: mechanical,

• H. W. Tipper, 1981.

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 53353: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 09.09.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida -
Rhynchonellida indet.
Rhynchonellida indet. Kuhn 1949
unpublished
Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya sp.1
Pholadomya sp.1 Sowerby 1823 clam
 Pectinida - Limidae
Ctenostreon cf. rugosum
Ctenostreon cf. rugosum Smith 1817 file clam
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Weyla sp.2
Weyla sp.2 Böhm 1920 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys (Chlamys) textoria" = Chlamys textoria
"Chlamys (Chlamys) textoria" = Chlamys textoria Schlotheim 1820 scallop
1Aberhan 1993; 2Aberhan 1995