GSC loc. C-86513 - Tulsequah: Late/Upper Pliensbachian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
Arieticeras sp. Seguenza 1885
small specimens; Frebold 1980
Protogrammoceras sp. Spath 1913
Frebold 1980
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon groeberi Damborenea 1987
1 individual
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia sp. (Beyrich 1845)
Aberhan 1993
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Goniomya sp. Agassiz 1842
Aberhan 1993
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:British Columbia
Coordinates: 58.7° North, 133.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.6° North, 73.9° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Pliensbachian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 2
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pliensbachian
Age range of interval:192.90000 - 184.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Laberge Formation:Takwahoni
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Kunae Zone; Unit 6
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Lithology description: The Takwahoni Fm is a thick (3350 m) assemblage of interbedded conglomerate, greywacke, silstone, and shale.
Environment:open shallow subtidal Tectonic setting:back-arc basin
Geology comments: Coarse grained, near-shore Takwahoni Fm.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:mechanical,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:GSC
Collection method comments: H. W. Tipper, 1979.
Metadata
Database number:53109
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-09-06 04:29:43 Last modified:2006-04-06 05:34:41
Access level:the public Released:2005-09-06 04:29:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

14836 M. Aberhan. 1993. [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]