Millar Creek: Early Campanian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Palinuridae
Linuparus vancouverensis (Whiteaves 1895)
Linuparus canadensis (Whiteaves 1884)
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Nephropidae
Hoploparia horrida n. sp. Schweitzer et al. 2003
new species
Hoploparia tshudyi Schweitzer and Feldmann 2001
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:British Columbia County:Vancouver Island
Coordinates: 49.8° North, 125.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:56.5° North, 94.8° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Campanian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 7
Key time interval: Early Campanian
Age range of interval: 83.6 - 72.1 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Nanaimo Formation:Pender
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine lithified muddy mudstone
Secondary lithology:fine lithified silty siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:122496
Authorizer:C. Schweitzer Enterer:C. Schweitzer
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:decapod
Created:2011-12-31 07:13:55 Last modified:2020-01-08 16:37:53
Access level:the public Released:2011-12-31 07:13:55
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
38729.decapod C. E. Schweitzer, R. M. Feldmann, J. Fam, W. A. Hessin, S. W. Hetrick, T. G. Nyborg, and R. L. M. Ross. 2003. Cretaceous and Eocene Decapod Crustaceans from Southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia Canada. In P.B. Cavers (ed.), NRC Research Press 1-66 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer/M. Uhen]