NE Richardson Mountains (top 200-220 ft of upper shale-siltstone division) (Cretaceous of Canada)

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

• ENVIRONMENT: Not stated in text, but apparently marine siliciclastic.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Shale and siltstone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, assumed.

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

• COVERAGE: Limited to characteristic ammonoidea and bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication but with relatively modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Aucellina sp. Pompeckj 1901 scallop
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
"Crioceras (Hoplocrioceras) aff. laeviusculum" = Crioceratites
"Crioceras (Hoplocrioceras) aff. laeviusculum" = Crioceratites ammonite
 Ammonitida - Ancyloceratidae
 Ammonitida - Acrioceratidae
"Ancyloceras (Acrioceras) aff. starrkingi" = Toxoceratoides starrkingi
"Ancyloceras (Acrioceras) aff. starrkingi" = Toxoceratoides starrkingi Anderson 1938 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Aconeceras sp. Hyatt 1903 ammonite