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 3645 ft above base of local section, immediately below shale member.
• bed-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 87479: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Ptychoceras (Diptychoceras) glaber Whiteaves 1884 ammonite | |
Marshallites cumshewaensis Whiteaves 1884 ammonite | |
Desmoceras (Pseudoughligella) dawsoni Whiteaves 1900 ammonite | |
Anagaudryceras sacya Forbes 1846 ammonite | |
Mortoniceras (Styphloceras) downii McLearn 1972 ammonite |