Bed 3, Section 1 - Lower shale-siltstone division, Aklavik Range: Tithonian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya sp. (Meek 1873)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten cf. cinctus Sowerby 1822
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp.
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Buchiidae
Aucella trigonoides Lahusen Smith 1894
Aucella piochii (Gabb 1864)
Aucella russiensis Pavlow 1907
Aucella mniovnikensis
Aucella cf. subpallasi
Aucella fischeri Pavlow 1907
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. (Lamarck 1801)
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Northwest Territories
Coordinates: 68.0° North, 135.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:67.4° North, 65.2° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Tithonian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 6
Key time interval: Tithonian
Age range of interval: 149.2 - 145 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lower Shale-Siltstone Member:Lower
Local section:East slope of Aklavik Range Local bed:32 ft
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 1-9 ft thick shale, 27-36.5 ft above the base of the section; assigned to the Aucella fischeri-Aucella trigonalis biozone; classified as "Lower Mbr" of the "lower shale-siltstone division" in Jeletzky (1958); Jeletzky (1958) assigns this unit an upper Tithonian age.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,gray lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Sandstone, grey, speckled, fine-grained, hard; interbeds of darker coloured, softer, silty sandstone.
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: No environmental data reported.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:GSC
Collection method comments: Collected by Jeletzky; presumably reposited in GSC collections .
Taxonomic list comments:Collection appears not to be exhaustive.
Metadata
Also known as:Field No. 22, Bed 3
Database number:55879
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-11-07 11:21:26 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-07 11:21:26
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

15084. J. A. Jeletzky. 1958. Uppermost Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks of Aklavik Range, Northeastern Richardson Mountains, Northwest Territories. Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 58(2):1-84 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]