GSC loc. C-103093 - 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: Spatsizi Formation (Hazelton Group), Early/Lower Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• probably Freboldi Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: R. C. Thomson and P. L. Smith. 1992. Pliensbachian (Lower Jurassic) biostratigraphy and ammonite fauna of the Spatsizi area, north-central British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 437:1-87 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 53564: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 12.09.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Nautiloida indet.2
unpublished
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Eoderoceratidae
Dubariceras freboldi Dommergues et al. 1984 ammonite
Metaderoceras talkeetnaense Thomson and Smith 1992 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium (Entolium) corneolum2 Young and Bird 1828 scallop
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Weyla (Weyla) bodenbenderi2 Behrendsen 1891 scallop
 Heteroconchia -
Heterodonta indet.1 Neumayr 1884 clam
Echinoidea
 Echinoida -
Echinoida indet.2 Troschel 1872 sea urchin
unpublished