GSC loc. C-103153 - Spatsizi River (Jurassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (57.9° N, 129.6° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 71.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Spatsizi Formation (Hazelton Group), Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• Kanense Zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• The Hazelton Group is a thick assemblage of basaltic to rhyolitic volcanics, sedimentary rocks, their tuffaceous equivalents, and minor limestone.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: G. K. Jakobs. 1997. Toarcian (Early Jurassic) ammonoids from western North America. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 428:137pp. [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55667: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 02.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Dactylioceratidae
"Dactylioceras cf. simplex" = Dactylioceras (Eodactylites) simplex, Dactylioceras cf. kanense
"Dactylioceras cf. simplex" = Dactylioceras (Eodactylites) simplex Fucini 1935 ammonite
Dactylioceras cf. kanense McLearn 1930 ammonite