GSC loc. C-080578, Maude Island (Jurassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (53.2° N, 132.1° W: paleocoordinates 2.3° N, 126.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fannin Formation (Maude Group), Late/Upper Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• Informal Radiolarian Zone 1 (correlates with Propinquum Ammonite Zone); meters indicate distance from top of Fannin Fm

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, calcareous sandstone

• section lithology suggests shallow marine deposition
• lithology of sample: medium gray sandy limestone (fine calcarenite)

•lithology of sample/(sequence): interbedded medium gray sandstone (..., dark gray siltstone and rare shale)

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: recrystallized

Reposited in the GSC

• collected by B.E.B. Cameron, 1980; focus on radiolarians

Primary reference: E.S. Carter, B.E.B. Cameron, and P.L. Smith. 1988. Lower and Middle Jurassic radiolarian biostratigraphy and systematic paleontology, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 386:1-109 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71081: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 18.04.2007

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Taxonomic list

• rare: 1-2 specimens; common: 3-6 specimens; abundant: >6 specimens
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Protozoa
 Nassellaria - Hsuidae
"Drulanta edenshawi" = Parahsuum edenshawi
"Drulanta edenshawi" = Parahsuum edenshawi Carter 1988 radiolarian