Where: British Columbia, Canada (53.4° N, 132.3° W: paleocoordinates 2.3° N, 126.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Sample from limestone 120.0 m above base of section

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•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

Size class: microfossils

Collected by B.E.B. Cameron; reposited in the GSC

• collected by B.E.B. Cameron, 1980; focus on radiolarians; 80-CAA-T-80-1 STA 26

Primary reference: E. S. Carter, S. Goričan, J. Guex, L. O'Dogherty, P. De Wever, P. Dumitrica, R. S. Hori, A. Matsuoka, and P. A. Whalen. 2010. Global radiolarian zonation for the Pliensbachian, Toarcian and Aalenian. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 297:401-419 [J. Pálfy/A. Kocsis/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71100: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 18.04.2007, edited by Adam Kocsis

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