GSC loc. 93350 - McConnell Creek (Jurassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (56.3° N, 126.3° W: paleocoordinates 31.3° N, 68.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Jurassic (201.4 - 174.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: mechanical,

• H. W. Tipper, 1975.

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 53546: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 12.09.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium (Entolium) corneolum Young and Bird 1828 scallop
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Weyla sp.2 Böhm 1920 scallop
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
? Pholadomya sp. Sowerby 1823 clam
Poulton 1976
Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida -
Rhynchonellida indet. Kuhn 1949
Poulton 1976
 Terebratulida -
Terebratulida indet. Waagen 1883
Poulton 1976