GSC loc. 90949 - Hazelton: Middle Toarcian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Bositra buchi (Roemer 1836)
Aberhan 1998
shell pavement
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hammatoceratidae
Rarenodia planulata Venturi 1975
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
Pseudolioceras sp.
Leukadiella sp.
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Dactylioceratidae
Dactylioceratidae indet. Hyatt 1867
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida
Belemnitida indet. Zittel 1895
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:British Columbia
Coordinates: 55.5° North, 126.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.7° North, 68.4° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Early Jurassic
Stage: Toarcian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 3
Key time interval: Middle Toarcian Ammonoid zone:  Rarenodia planulata
Age range of interval: 182.9 - 180.4 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Hazelton
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Planulata Zone
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
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:mechanical,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:GSC
Metadata
Database number:53218
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-09-07 06:00:37 Last modified:2019-07-20 22:53:46
Access level:the public Released:2005-09-07 06:00:37
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]