Where: British Columbia, Canada (56.1° N, 120.2° W: paleocoordinates 58.4° N, 72.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kaskapau Formation (Smoky Group), Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 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: Cenomanian, on the basis of ammonoid and foraminiferal biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position in local section.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, gray, carbonaceous shale
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 and C. R. Stelck. 1955. Foraminifera of the Cenomanian Dunveganoceras Zone of the Peace River area of western Canada: Appendix - New Cenomanian ammonites from Alberta. Reserach Council of Alberta Report 70:63-72 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 87573: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Dunveganoceras conditum, "Dunveganoceras albertense" = Dunveganoceras (Dunveganoceras) albertense
Dunveganoceras conditum ammonite
"Dunveganoceras albertense" = Dunveganoceras (Dunveganoceras) albertense Warren 1930 ammonite |