Jackson Unit in British Columbia: Oxfordian - Tithonian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Venerecyprina sp.
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Belemnopsis sp. Bayle 1878
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Staffinella sp. Casey 1952
Isocyprina sp. Röder 1882
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Corbiculidae
Eocallista regularis
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Vaugonia doroschini (Eichwald 1871)
original and current combination Trigonia doroschini
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. (Lamarck 1801)
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Anopaea sp. Eichwald 1861
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Mclearnia sp. Crickmay 1930
Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma sp. (Meek and Hayden 1865)
original and current combination Avicula (Oxytoma)
Hypoxytoma sp.
spelled with current rank as Oxytoma (Hypoxytoma)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia fischeriana (d'Orbigny 1845)
Buchia mosquensis (White 1885)
synonym of Buchia piochii
Buchia piochii (Gabb 1864)
Buchia concentrica (White 1888)
original and current combination Aucella concentrica
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Somapecten sp.
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758
unclassified
Planolites sp. Nicholson 1873
Diplocraterion sp. Torell 1870
Teichichnus sp. Seilacher 1955
Chondrites sp. von Sternberg 1833
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:British Columbia
Coordinates: 49.7° North, 126.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:11.0° North, 119.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Key time interval:Oxfordian - Tithonian
Age range of interval:161.50000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Jackson Unit
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:wave ripples,bioturbation lithified conglomerate
Secondary lithology:"cross stratification",bioturbation lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Sandstone or conglomerate: chert pebbles randomly oriented, low-angle cross-bedded sandstones, oriented fossil logs, abundant marine bivalves, minor ammonites, belemnites.
Environment:shoreface
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:core,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:41194
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:D. Schramm
Modifier:D. Schramm Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-07-08 10:07:43 Last modified:2004-07-14 10:01:07
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-08 10:07:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11078. S. E. MacLeod and L. V. Hills. 1990. Conformable Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) to Early Cretaceous Strata, northern Bowser Basin, British Columbia: a sedimentological and paleontological model. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 27:989-998 [A. Miller/D. Schramm/D. Schramm]