GSC loc. C-103303 - 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: Joan Member (Spatsizi Formation), Early/Lower Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• ?Whiteavesi Zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, fine-grained, volcaniclastic sandstone

• The Joan Fm. contains a diverse bivalve fauna that indicates a relatively shallow to moderately deep water environment of deposition, corresponding to composite assemblage depth zones B and C 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 53816: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 14.09.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Eoderoceratidae
Metaderoceras sp.
Metaderoceras sp. Spath 1925 ammonite
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet.2
Gastropoda indet.2 Cuvier 1795 snail
unpublished
Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigoniidae indet.1
Trigoniidae indet.1 Lamarck 1819 clam
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Weyla (Weyla) bodenbenderi2
Weyla (Weyla) bodenbenderi2 Behrendsen 1891 scallop
Anthozoa
  -
Anthozoa indet.1
Anthozoa indet.1 Ehrenberg 1834
 Ichnofossils -
? Chondrites sp.2
? Chondrites sp.2 von Sternberg 1833
trace fossils; unpublished
1Aberhan 1993; 2Aberhan 1998