French Beach Park: Chattian, Canada
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | British Columbia |
| Coordinates: | 48.4° North, 123.9° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 48.1° North, 115.0° West | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Chattian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| *Period: | Early/Lower Tertiary - Middle Tertiary | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Eocene |
| *International age/stage: | Early/Lower Rupelian - Late/Upper Priabonian | *Local age/stage: | Late/Upper Galvinian - Early/Lower Galvinian |
| Key time interval: | Chattian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 27.82 - 23.03 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Sooke |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | NP 71 | ||
| Database number: | 7737 | ||
| Authorizer: | L. Ivany | Enterer: | E. Kowalski |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-06-01 07:57:50 | Last modified: | 2019-12-06 16:58:28 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-06-01 07:57:50 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 71158. | B. L. Clark and R. Arnold. 1923. Fauna of the Sooke Formation Vancouver Island. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 14(5):123-234 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |