Kirby Creek, east: Chattian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Lucinidae
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Phacoides columbianum n. sp.
Clark and Arnold 1923
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Cardium sookensis n. sp.
Clark and Arnold 1923
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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Macoma sp.
Leach 1819
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Macoma sookensis n. sp.
Clark and Arnold 1923
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Tellina oregonensis
Conrad 1848
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Tellina (Peronidia) bodegensis
(Hinds 1844)
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Tellina vancouverensis n. sp.
Clark and Arnold 1923
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Metis vancouverensis n. sp.
Clark and Arnold 1923
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Semelidae
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Semele vancouverensis n. sp.
Clark and Arnold 1923
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Mactridae
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Mulinia newcombei n. sp.
Clark and Arnold 1923
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Spisula (Hemimactra) hannibali n. sp.
Clark and Arnold 1923
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Mesodesmatidae
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Myadesma dalli
Clark 1922
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Chione vancouverensis
Clark and Arnold 1923
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Saxidomus newcombei
(Merriam 1897)
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Antigona vancouverensis
(Merriam 1897)
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Ungulinidae
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Diplodonta cf. stephensoni
Clark 1918
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Corbiculidae
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Cyrene (Corbicula) sookensis n. sp.
Clark and Arnold 1923
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Teredinidae
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Teredo sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Pholadidae
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Zirfaea sp.
Gray 1842
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Myidae
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Platyodon cf. cancellatus
(Conrad 1837)
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Cryptomya quadrata vancouverensis
Clark and Arnold 1923
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Bivalvia
- Solenida
- Solenidae
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Solen clallamensis
Clark and Arnold 1923
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Pecten (Chlamys) cornwalli n. sp.
Clark and Arnold 1923
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Anomiidae
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Pododesmus newcombei
Clark and Arnold 1923
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Glycymerididae
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Glycymeris vancouverensis n. sp.
Clark and Arnold 1923
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Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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Mytilus (Mytiloconcha) matthewsonii
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Mytilus sammamishensis
Weaver 1912
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Modiolus sookensis
Clark and Arnold 1923
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Polyplacophora
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Oligochiton lioplax n. gen., n. sp.
Berry 1922
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Trimusculidae
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Gadinia reticulata sookensis n. ssp.
Clark and Arnold 1923
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Gastropoda
- Pleuroceridae
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Goniobasis sookensis
Clark and Arnold 1923
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Buccinidae
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Agasoma acuminatum
Anderson and Martin 1914
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Siphonaliidae
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Searlesia branneri n. sp.
Clark and Arnold 1923
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Fasciolariidae
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Fusinus (Priscofusus) hannibali n. sp.
Clark and Arnold 1923
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Gastropoda
- Cerithiopsidae
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Cerithidea newcombei
Clark and Arnold 1923
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Gastropoda
- Pseudomelaniidae
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Antiplanes muirensis n. sp.
Clark and Arnold 1923
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Desmostylidae
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Desmostylus sookensis n. sp.
Cornwall 1922
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Chondrichthyes
- Chimaeriformes
- Chimaeridae
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Canadodus suntoki n. gen., n. sp.
Popov et al. 2020
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RBCM.EH2014.065.0001.001 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | British Columbia | County: | Vancouver Island |
Coordinates: | 48.4° North, 123.9° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 48.0° North, 115.0° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
Stage: | Chattian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
Key time interval: | Chattian | ||
Age range of interval: | 27.82 - 23.03 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Sooke |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | CAS 231, GSC 317, GSC 1144, NP 129, Cornwall B | ||
Database number: | 63087 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2006-08-04 14:27:41 | Last modified: | 2023-05-15 09:15:24 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-08-04 14:27:41 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
18169. | I. A. Cornwall. 1922. Some notes on the Sooke Formation, Vancouver Island, B.C. Canadian Field Naturalist 36(7):121-123 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
5965 | B. L. Beatty. 2023. Further desmostylian remains from the upper Oligocene of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 68 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen] | |
71234 | S. S. Berry. 1922. Fossil chitons of Western North America. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 11(18):399-526 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
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] | |
74097 | E. V. Popov, M. J. Johns, and S. Suntok. 2020. A new genus of chimaerid fish (Holocephali, Chimaeridae) from the upper Oligocene Sooke Formation of British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e1772275 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |