GSC C-056952, 056953 Kennecott Point, section II, Graham Island (Jurassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (53.9° N, 133.2° W: paleocoordinates 0.8° S, 128.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sandilands Formation (Kunga Group), Early/Lower Hettangian (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)

• between 15 m and 17.5 m above base of section

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified siltstone and lithified sandstone

• interbedded sandstone/siltstone/shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. M. Longridge, E. S. Carter, P. L. Smith and H. W. Tipper. 2007. Early Hettangian ammonites and radiolarians from the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia and their bearing on the definition of the Triassic-Jurassic boundary. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 244:142-169 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97506: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.08.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Psiloceratidae
? Neophyllites sp. Lange 1941 ammonite
 Ceratitida - Choristoceratidae
Choristoceras aff. minutus Guex 1995 ceratite