Where: British Columbia, Canada (53.3° N, 132.0° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 59.6° N, 91.4° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Haida Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the lower sandstone member of the Haida Fm, which rests unconformably on massive agglomerate of the Jurassic Yakoun Fm, and is overlain by the shale member, which passes up into the Honna Fm. AGE: Albian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 2480-3410 ft above base of local section.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, concretionary, gray sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by McLearn; reposited in the GSC
• COLLECTOR: F. H. McLearn. REPOSITORY: Geological Survey of Canada (GSC).
Primary reference: F. H. McLearn. 1972. Ammonoids of the lower Cretaceous sandstone member of the Haida Formation, Skidgate Inlet, Queen Charlotte Islands, western British Columbia. Geological Bulletin of Canada Bulletin 188:1-78 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 87478: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.03.2009
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Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Ptychoceras (Diptychoceras) glaber Whiteaves 1884 ammonite | |
Pseudhelicoceras carlottense Whiteaves 1884 ammonite
Mariella sp. Nowak 1916 ammonite | |
Marshallites sp. Matsumoto 1955 ammonite
Kossmaticeras canadense McLearn 1972 ammonite | |
"Proplacenticeras sutherlandbrowni" = Beudanticeras sutherlandbrowni
"Proplacenticeras sutherlandbrowni" = Beudanticeras sutherlandbrowni McLearn 1972 ammonite | |
Puzosia skidegatensis, Desmoceras (Pseudoughligella) dawsoni, Desmoceras (Pseudoughligella) bearskinense
Puzosia skidegatensis McLearn 1972 ammonite
Desmoceras (Pseudoughligella) dawsoni Whiteaves 1900 ammonite
Desmoceras (Pseudoughligella) bearskinense McLearn 1972 ammonite | |
Tetragonites subtimotheanus Wiedmann 1962 ammonite
Anagaudryceras sacya Forbes 1846 ammonite
Zelandites cf. inflatus Matsumoto 1959 ammonite | |
Ammonoceratites crenocostatus Whiteaves 1876 ammonite | |
Mortoniceras (Deiradoceras) "sp. A" Van Hoepen 1931 ammonite |