GSC loc. 19578 - Quesnel Lake (Jurassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (52.7° N, 121.5° W: paleocoordinates 26.4° N, 65.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• Early Sinemurian probably

• 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,

• W. E. Cockfield, 1931.

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 53623: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 13.09.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Heteroconchia -
Heterodonta indet.1 Neumayr 1884 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys (Chlamys) valoniensis" = Praechlamys valoniensis
"Chlamys (Chlamys) valoniensis" = Praechlamys valoniensis Defrance 1825 scallop
and several fragmentary valves
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Weyla sp.2 Böhm 1920 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Limea (Pseudolimea) sp." = Pseudolimea2
"Limea (Pseudolimea) sp." = Pseudolimea2 Douglas and Arkell 1932 file clam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Arietitidae
"Paracaloceras sp." = Vermiceras (Paracaloceras)
"Paracaloceras sp." = Vermiceras (Paracaloceras) Spath 1923 ammonite
See Frebold and Tipper, 1969
 Ammonitida - Psiloceratidae
Badouxia canadense ammonite
See Frebold and Tipper, 1969
Badouxia sp. Guex and Taylor 1976 ammonite
See Frebold and Tipper, 1969
Badouxia aff. columbiae Frebold 1967 ammonite
See Frebold and Tipper, 1969
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet.1 Cuvier 1805