Puntledge River Fish Hatchery: Early/Lower Campanian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Eupachydiscus sp. Spath 1922
Urakawites sp.
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
Glyptoxoceras sp. Spath 1925
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Nostoceratidae
Eubostrychoceras sp. Matsumoto 1967
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Palaeocorystidae
Eucorystes platys Schweitzer and Feldmann 2001
recombined as Joeranina platys
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:British Columbia County:Vancouver Island
Coordinates: 49.7° North, 125.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:56.4° North, 94.7° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
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 Formation:Pender
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine lithified muddy,silty 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
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:202482
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:decapod
Created:2019-07-11 16:31:14 Last modified:2019-07-11 16:31:14
Access level:the public Released:2019-07-11 16:31:14
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

63294. C. E. Schweitzer, R. M. Feldmann, V. Cosovic, R. L. M. Ross, and D. A. Waugh. 2009. New Cretaceous and Eocene decapoda (Astacidea, Thalassinidea, Brachyura) from British Columbia, Canada. Annals of Carnegie Museum 77(4):403-423 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]