Shaft No. 6, Union Mines, Nanaimo (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Cumberland, Vancouver Island

Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.6° N, 125.0° W: paleocoordinates 56.3° N, 94.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nanaimo Group, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Possibly from Extension Formation, but lithology more consistent with overlying Pender Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; silty sandstone

• fluvial to near-shore marine deposition
• silty sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: fossil at Royal British Columbia Museum

Primary reference: M. J. Vavrek and D. B. Brinkman. 2018. The first record of a trionychid turtle (Testudines: Trionychidae) from the Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast of North America. Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology 5:34-37 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 193055: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 05.05.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle
RBCM EH2004.012.1353