GSC loc. 85424 - Smithers (Jurassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (54.4° N, 127.5° W: paleocoordinates 27.1° N, 69.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hazelton Group, Late/Upper Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• Late Sinemurian probably

• 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, 1970.

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 53759: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 14.09.2005

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Weyla (Weyla) alata von Buch 1838 scallop
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya sp. Sowerby 1823 clam
unpublished
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Frenguelliella sp. Leanza 1942 clam
unpublished