Thunder Lake (Kimmeridgian): Kimmeridgian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Aspidoceratidae
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Physodoceras sp.
Hyatt 1900
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Oppeliidae
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Ochetoceras (Suboxydiscites) manningense n. sp.
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Cephalopoda
- Phylloceratida
- Phylloceratidae
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Phylloceras cf. mazenoti
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Buchiidae
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Buchia (Anaucella) concentrica
(White 1888)
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Camptonectes (Mclearnia) sp.
Meek 1864
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | British Columbia |
| Coordinates: | 49.0° North, 121.0° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.9° North, 69.2° West | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
| Stage: | Kimmeridgian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Kimmeridgian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 154.80000 - 149.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: thought to represent one of two arbitrarily separated out biostratigraphic assemblages from within "a narrow stratigraphic interval" about 50 m thick that is within the informally defined "Thunder Lake Sequence" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | medium,hematitic,black muddy sandstone |
| Lithology description: "black, rusty weathering, medium grained greywacke beds" | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | GSC |
| Collection method comments: fossils "were collected from talus derived from bluffs" | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Manning Provincial Park; GSC C-128986 | ||
| Database number: | 114690 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-08-20 16:26:25 | Last modified: | 2011-08-20 02:26:25 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-08-20 16:26:25 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 37160. | T. P. Poulton, A. Zeiss, and J. A. Jeletzky. 1988. New molluscan faunas of the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian and Early Tithonian) of western Canada. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 379:103-115 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |