GSC loc. C-90906 - Spatsizi River: Early/Lower Pliensbachian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Eoderoceratidae
Dubariceras freboldi Dommergues et al. 1984
Dommergues et al., 1984
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Limea (Pseudolimea) duplicata (Sowerby 1814)
1 individual
recombined as Pseudolimea duplicata
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium (Entolium) corneolum (Young and Bird 1828)
Bivalvia - Ostreida
Ostreoida indet. FĂ«russac 1822
corrected as Ostreida
unpublished
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:British Columbia
Coordinates: 57.5° North, 128.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.0° North, 71.0° 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:Early/Lower Pliensbachian
Age range of interval:192.90000 - 184.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Hazelton Formation:Cold Fish Volcanics
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Freboldi 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
Collection method comments: H. W. Tipper, 1981.
Metadata
Database number:53370
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-09-09 02:24:57 Last modified:2006-04-06 07:41:53
Access level:the public Released:2005-09-09 02:24:57
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]