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
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 | |
? Neophyllites sp. Lange 1941 ammonite | |
Choristoceras aff. minutus Guex 1995 ceratite |