Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.6° N, 124.7° W: paleocoordinates 56.1° N, 94.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Northumberland Formation (Nanaimo Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• The Northumberland Formation holds the ammonite key index species Baculites occidentalis, Pachydiscus suciaensis, Nostoceras hornbyense.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: submarine fan; lithified, concretionary, silty, calcareous mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by K. Morrison in 2005

• VIPM: Vancouver Island Palaeontological Museum

Primary reference: K. Morrison, G. J. Dyke, and L. M. Chiappe. 2005. Cretaceous fossil birds from Hornby Island (British Columbia). Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 42:2097-2101 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 84196: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.09.2008, edited by Richard Butler and Jonathan Marcot

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