Where: Yukon, Canada (68.2° N, 137.0° W: paleocoordinates 66.8° N, 52.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the "upper shale-siltstone division" of an unnamed lithostratigraphic unit, for which lithostratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Valanginian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy; Crioceras remondi zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: List is representative of this zone; upper 200-220 ft of upper member of upper shale-siltstone division.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale and siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Reposited in the GSC
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR:Unknown. REPOSITORY: Presumably the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC).
Primary reference: J. A. Jeletzky. 1968. Macrofossil zones of the marine Cretaceous of the Western Interior of Canada and their correlation with the zones and stages of Europe and the Western Interior of the United States. Geological Survey of Canada Paper 67(72):1-66 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 87415: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Aucellina sp. Pompeckj 1901 scallop | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Crioceras (Hoplocrioceras) aff. laeviusculum" = Crioceratites
"Crioceras (Hoplocrioceras) aff. laeviusculum" = Crioceratites ammonite | |
Ancyloceras (Ancyloceras) cf. durrelli Anderson 1938 ammonite | |
"Ancyloceras (Acrioceras) aff. starrkingi" = Toxoceratoides starrkingi
"Ancyloceras (Acrioceras) aff. starrkingi" = Toxoceratoides starrkingi Anderson 1938 ammonite | |
Aconeceras sp. Hyatt 1903 ammonite |