Ells Bay (GSC locality 48603 reworked ammonite) (Jurassic of Canada)

Also known as Sutherland Brown's locality 61AB28C

Where: British Columbia, Canada (53.3° N, 132.5° W: paleocoordinates 0.4° N, 127.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Maude Formation, Late/Upper Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• bed is "1 ft thick, 150 ft above the top of the Kunga Formation"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, calcareous sandstone

• "light grey to buff-weathering grey calcareous sandstone to concretionary limestone"

•lithified based on preservation of figured specimens

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S. Brown

Primary reference: H. Frebold. 1967. Position of the Lower Jurassic genus Fanninoceras McLearn and the age of the Maude Formation on Queen Charlotte Islands. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 4(6):1145-1149 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90959: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.08.2009, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Eoderoceratidae
Crucilobiceras pacificum n. sp. Frebold 1970 ammonite