GSC loc. C-158036 - Graham Island: Early/Lower Toarcian - Middle Toarcian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
Harpoceras cf. subplanatum (Oppel 1856)
Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Cenoceratidae
Cenoceras cf. intermedius (Sowerby 1816)
recombined as Cenoceras intermedium
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula sp. Quenstedt 1930
Aberhan 1998 1 individual
sp. B
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:British Columbia
Coordinates: 53.4° North, 132.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.2° North, 126.4° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Toarcian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 3
Key time interval:Early/Lower Toarcian - Middle Toarcian
Age range of interval:184.20000 - 180.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Maude Formation:Whiteaves
Local section:Section 6 - Graham Island Local bed:108.00 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Meters indicate distance from base of section
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified siltstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:GSC
Metadata
Database number:53095
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-09-06 03:26:09 Last modified:2006-03-31 06:25:30
Access level:the public Released:2005-09-06 03:26:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

15025. G. K. Jakobs. 1997. Toarcian (Early Jurassic) ammonoids from western North America. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 428:137pp. [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]

Secondary references:

14361 M. Aberhan. 1998. Early Jurassic Bivalvia of western Canada. Part I. Subclasses Palaeotaxodonta, Pteriomorpha, and Isofilibranchia. Beringeria 21:57-150 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/M. Uhen]