GSC Loc. 24278, Salmon Island (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Section 28 (Field No. 255/1-2)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (50.5° N, 127.8° W: paleocoordinates 20.4° N, 115.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Barremian, on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unit 1, near base of section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, gray, green, sandy siliciclastic sediments

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Greywacke, dark grey to greenish grey, fine-grained, hard, massive-looking. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies descriptions.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Jeletzky; reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: J.A. Jeletzky. REPOSITORY: Geological Survey of Canada (GSC).

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88116: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.04.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for ammonoids, some bivalves listed. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with relation modern nomenclature and species-resolution identification.s
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
? Aucellina sp. Pompeckj 1901 scallop
 Carditida - Astartidae
? Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam
Cephalopoda
 Belemnoidea -
Belemnitida indet. Zittel 1895 belemnite
 Belemnitida - Belemnitidae
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Eulytoceras aff. phestum Matheron 1878 ammonite