Murray River (East Pine) [Kaskapu Fm] (Cretaceous to of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (55.7° N, 121.2° W: paleocoordinates 60.6° N, 78.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kaskapau Formation (Smoky Group), Turonian to Turonian (93.9 - 86.3 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Belonging to the Smoky Group. The Kaskapau is conformable with the underlying continental Dunvegan Formation in northeastern British Columbia and most of the Alberta Peace River area, with a transitional lithology except in the vicinity of Watino, Alberta, where the contact is abrupt and the Dunveganoceras Zone seems to be missing. The Kaskapau Formation is conformably overlain by the Bad Heart Formation in the Smoky River area. AGE: Turonian-Coniacian, on the basis of ammonoid and bivalve biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From lower part of Kaskapu Fm.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, gray, carbonaceous shale

• ENVIRONMENT: Siliciclastic marine.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Predominantly dark grey, fissile, carbonaceous shale. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the NMC

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Multiple collectors. REPOSITORY: National Museum of Canada.

Primary reference: P. S. Warren. 1933. New Coloradoan species from the Upper Peace River, British Columbia. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada 27:109-119 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87448: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.03.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for marine invertebrates. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, and with relatively antiquated nomenclature but species-resolution identifications.
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea soleniscus Meek 1893 oyster
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panope murrayensis n. sp. Warren 1933 clam
 Poromyida - Poromyidae
Liopistha (Psilomya) allani n. sp. Warren 1933 clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Arctica murrayensis n. sp. Warren 1933 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Unionida - Unionidae
Elliptio sulfuriensis freshwater mussel