GSC loc. C-117206 - Spatsizi River (Jurassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (57.7° N, 129.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 71.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cold Fish Volcanics Formation (Hazelton Group), Early/Lower Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• Freboldi Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the GSC

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 55544: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 01.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Polymorphitidae
? Uptonia sp. Buckman 1898 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Eoderoceratidae
Metaderoceras cf. mouterdei Frebold 1970 ammonite
Metaderoceras talkeetnaense Thomson and Smith 1992 ammonite