GSC loc. 324 - Ashcroft (Jurassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (50.7° N, 121.3° W: paleocoordinates 8.1° N, 64.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• Kunae Zone

• 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,

• C. W. Drysdale, 1912.

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 53780: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 14.09.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Heteroconchia -
Heterodonta indet. Neumayr 1884 clam
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Weyla (Weyla) bodenbenderi Behrendsen 1891 scallop