GSC Loc. 24298, Winter Harbour (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Section 22 (Field No. 241/14-22)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (50.5° N, 128.0° W: paleocoordinates 19.2° N, 116.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Upper Hauterivian on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unit 3, near middle of section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary, black, brown, gray, blue, sandy siltstone

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Siltstone, bluish grey when fresh, weathers brownish grey to blackish grey, slightly to moderately sandy, contains numerous concretions. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies descriptions.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Jeletzky; reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: J.A. Jeletzky. REPOSITORY: Geological Survey of Canada (GSC).

Primary reference: J. A. Jeletzky. 1976. Mesozoic and ? Tertiary rocks of Quatsino Sound, Vancouver Island, Bristish Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 242:1-243 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88107: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.04.2009

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for ammonoids, some bivalves listed. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with relation modern nomenclature and species-resolution identification.s
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Protetragonitidae
Protetragonites cf. quadrisulcatus
Protetragonites cf. quadrisulcatus d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Polyptychitidae
Simbirskites (Simbirskites) cf. broadi