Klaskino Inlet, Welleri Zone, Vancouver Island: Tuvalian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
|
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Halobiidae
|
||||||||||
|
Halobia sp.
Bronn 1830
|
||||||||||
|
Cephalopoda
- Ammonoida
- Juvavitidae
|
||||||||||
|
unclassified
|
||||||||||
|
Cephalopoda
- Ammonoida
- Haloritidae
|
||||||||||
|
Sagenites cf. herbichi
Mojsisovics 1893
|
||||||||||
|
Cephalopoda
- Ammonoida
- Tropitidae
|
||||||||||
|
Tropites sp.
Mojsisovics 1875
|
||||||||||
| zone fossil | ||||||||||
|
Cephalopoda
- Ammonoida
- Klamathitidae
|
||||||||||
|
Cephalopoda
- Ammonoida
- Arcestidae
|
||||||||||
|
Arcestes sp.
Suess 1865
|
||||||||||
|
Cephalopoda
- Ammonoida
- Trachyceratidae
|
||||||||||
|
Pamphagosirenites cf. pamphagus
(Dittmar 1866)
|
||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | British Columbia |
| Coordinates: | 50.2° North, 127.9° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.2° North, 70.6° West (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Late Triassic |
| Stage: | Carnian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 3 |
| Key time interval: | Tuvalian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 233.4 - 227 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Parson Bay | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Welleri Zone bed [JA: originally entered as Carnian; the Dilleri and Welleri zones are both Tuvalian according to Lucas et al. 2012] | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lenticular "limestone" |
| Secondary lithology: | shelly/skeletal,black "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: The collection is from one of the five main lenticular dark limestone beds with black Halobia-rich lime-shale | |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 49706 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. McGowan | Enterer: | A. McGowan |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-04-24 07:17:25 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-04-24 07:17:25 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13297. | D. Carlisle and T. Susuki. 1974. Emergent basalt and submergent carbonate-clastic sequences including the Upper Triassic Dilleri and Welleri Zones on Vancouver Island. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 11:254-279 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/A. McGowan] |
Secondary references:
| 13296 | J. A. Jeletzky. 1976. Mesozoic and ? Tertiary rocks of Quatsino Sound, Vancouver Island, Bristish Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 242:1-243 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/A. Hendy] |