Where: Alberta, Canada (53.8° N, 119.0° W: paleocoordinates 54.9° N, 71.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Fort St. John Group, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Fort St. John Gp, which is overlain by the Dunvegan Fm. AGE: Late Albian, on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy; Neogastroplites zone, N. cornutus subzone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 217 ft above the lower contact of the group.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by Thorsteinsson in 1952
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Thorsteinsson, 1952. REPOSITORY: Geological Survey of Canada (GSC).
Primary reference: D. F. Stott. 1963. The Cretaceous Alberta Group and equivalent rocks, Rocky Mountain foothills, Alberta. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 317:1-306 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 89190: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.05.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca | |
Cirripedia indet. barnacle | |
Cephalopoda | |
Neogastroplites sp. ammonite
Neogastroplites cf. cornutus Whiteaves 1885 ammonite | |
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Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam |