Shaft No. 6, Union Mines, Nanaimo: Early/Lower Campanian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionychidae indet.
Gray 1825
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| RBCM EH2004.012.1353 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | British Columbia |
| Coordinates: | 49.6° North, 125.0° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 56.3° North, 94.8° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Nanaimo | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Possibly from Extension Formation, but lithology more consistent with overlying Pender Formation | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | silty sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: silty sandstone | |
| Environment: | fluvial-deltaic indet. |
| Geology comments: fluvial to near-shore marine deposition | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collection method comments: fossil at Royal British Columbia Museum | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Cumberland, Vancouver Island | ||
| Database number: | 193055 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Holroyd | Enterer: | P. Holroyd |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2018-05-05 14:48:14 | Last modified: | 2021-02-18 09:05:21 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-05-05 14:48:14 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 65648. | M. J. Vavrek and D. B. Brinkman. 2018. The first record of a trionychid turtle (Testudines: Trionychidae) from the Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast of North America. Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology 5:34-37 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Mannion] |