GSC loc. C-103204 - Spatsizi River (Jurassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (57.5° N, 128.9° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 32.3° N, 61.1° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wolf Den Member (Spatsizi Formation), Late/Upper Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified siltstone

• The lithology and fauna of the lower Wolf Den Fm. are indicative of a deep water, possibly anaerobic, environment of deposition corresponding to composite assemblage depth zone D of Taylor (1982).

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 53815: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 14.09.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
Ammonoidea indet.
 Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
Tiltoniceras propinquum, Protogrammoceras sp.
Tiltoniceras propinquum Whiteaves 1884 ammonite
Protogrammoceras sp. Spath 1913 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Weyla (Weyla) bodenbenderi
Weyla (Weyla) bodenbenderi Behrendsen 1891 scallop