GSC loc. 85335 - Smithers: Late/Upper Sinemurian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna (Pinna) sp. Linnaeus 1758
Aberhan 1995
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillella araucana Damborenea 1987
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Neitheidae
Weyla (Weyla) alata (von Buch 1838)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Antiquilima (Antiquilima) cf. nagatoensis (Hayami 1959)
1 individual
Limea (Pseudolimea) duplicata (Sowerby 1814)
1 individual
recombined as Pseudolimea duplicata
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium (Entolium) corneolum (Young and Bird 1828)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Asteroceratidae
Arctoasteroceras jeletzkyi
unpublished
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:British Columbia
Coordinates: 54.9° North, 126.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.8° North, 68.8° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Sinemurian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
Key time interval:Late/Upper Sinemurian
Age range of interval:199.50000 - 192.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Hazelton
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Lithology description: The Hazelton Group is a thick assemblage of basaltic to rhyolitic volcanics, sedimentary rocks, their tuffaceous equivalents, and minor limestone.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Fragmentation:occasional
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 per R. Park, 1970.
Metadata
Database number:53193
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-09-07 02:12:36 Last modified:2006-04-05 03:41:36
Access level:the public Released:2005-09-07 02:12:36
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:

14835 M. Aberhan. 1995. [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]