GSC loc. C-158089 - Graham Island: Early Aalenian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hammatoceratidae
Hammatoceratinae indet. Buckman 1887
Jakobs 1991
Bredyia manflasensis
Jakobs 1991
Planammatoceras sp.
Jakobs 1991
Sphaerocoeloceras brochiiforme
Jakobs 1991
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
Jakobs 1991
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes (Costicamptonectes) sp. Fursich 1982
1 individual
sp. A
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Propeamussium (Striatoamussium) patriciae (Poulton 1991)
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:British Columbia
Coordinates: 53.4° North, 132.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:5.2° North, 126.2° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Middle Jurassic
Stage: Aalenian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 3
Key time interval: Early Aalenian
Age range of interval: 174.7 - 170.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Phantom Creek
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Early Aalenian(?)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:mechanical,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:GSC
Collection method comments: G. Jakobs, 1987.
Metadata
Database number:53442
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-09-09 07:41:03 Last modified:2005-10-08 00:13:06
Access level:the public Released:2005-09-09 07:41:03
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]