Snake Indian River Bridge, Oxytoma bed (Jurassic of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (53.4° N, 118.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 52.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nordegg Formation, Semicostatum (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, argillaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Westermann in 1959

• Repository: Department of Geology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

Primary reference: D. V. Ager and G. E. G. Westermann. 1963. New Mesozoic Brachiopods From Canada. Journal of Paleontology 37(3):595-610 [D. Bottjer/N. Bonuso/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133090: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.09.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Arietitidae
Arietites sp. Waagen 1869 ammonite
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
"trochiid gastropod"
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
 Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814 file clam
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
"Oxytoma cf. inaequivalvis" = Oxytoma inequivalvis, "Oxytoma cygnipes" = Oxytoma (Palmoxytoma) cygnipes
"Oxytoma cf. inaequivalvis" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
"Oxytoma cygnipes" = Oxytoma (Palmoxytoma) cygnipes Young and Bird 1822 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys aff. textorius" = Chlamys textoria
"Chlamys aff. textorius" = Chlamys textoria Schlotheim 1820 scallop
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
? Lucina liasina Terquem and Piette 1865 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya cf. unioides Roemer 1835 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
"Terebratula" sp. Müller 1776