Where: British Columbia, Canada (53.3° N, 132.0° W: paleocoordinates 22.9° N, 110.8° W)
• 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 with apparent angular unconformity on the lowest or tuffaceous shale member 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 unknown position within local section.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, concretionary, green sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by McLearn; reposited in the GSC
• COLLECTOR: F. H. McLearn. REPOSITORY: USGS, presumably now at USNM.
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 87491: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Calliphylloceras aff. nizinanum Imlay 1960 ammonite | |
"Anagaudryceras filicinctum" = Anagaudryceras sacya
"Anagaudryceras filicinctum" = Anagaudryceras sacya Forbes 1846 ammonite | |
Cleoniceras (Grycia) perezianum Whiteaves 1876 ammonite | |
Anahoplites yakounensis Whiteaves 1900 ammonite | |
Brewericeras hulenense Anderson 1938 ammonite | |
Douvilleiceras spiniferum Whiteaves 1876 ammonite |