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 with apparent unconformity on 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 the section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, concretionary, gray, 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 87505: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Eogunnarites alaskaensis Matsumoto 1959 ammonite | |
"Desmoceras (Pseudoughligella) japonicum" = Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella) japonicum
"Desmoceras (Pseudoughligella) japonicum" = Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella) japonicum Yabe 1904 ammonite | |
Parajaubertella imlayi Matsumoto 1959 ammonite |