GSC loc. C-103328 - Spatsizi River (Jurassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (57.5° N, 128.9° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 71.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Kunae Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified limestone

• 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

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 55611: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 02.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
Leptaleoceras aff. accuratum, Arieticeras cf. ruthenense, Arieticeras aff. algovianum
Leptaleoceras aff. accuratum Fucini 1931 ammonite
Arieticeras cf. ruthenense Reynes 1868 ammonite
Arieticeras aff. algovianum Oppel 1862 ammonite