Headwaters of Bern Creek - Husky Formation (Jurassic of Canada)

Where: Yukon, Canada (65.1° N, 140.3° W: paleocoordinates 65.5° N, 72.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Husky Formation, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• Collection a composite from the "Husky Formation" unit of the Bern Creek headwaters section. This succession is assigned an upper Tithonian Portlandian=lower Tiithonian? age based on macrofossil biostratigraphy (Buchia terebratuloides/fischeri and Buchia mosquensis biozones of Jeletzky, 1967).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; shale and siltstone

• Mainly outer neritic and upper bathyal.
• Mainly shale and siltstone.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collection is a composite derived from Fig. 2 of Jeletzky (1978), and amalgamated from occurrences of individual taxa on composite columns for individual lithostratigraphic units. Collections presumably are reposited in the Geological Survey of Canada collections.

Primary reference: J. A. Jeletzky. 1975. Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous paleogeographgy and depositional tectonics of Porcupine Plateau. adjacent areas of Northern Yukon and those of MacKensie District. Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 74(16):1-52 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55967: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

• Definately not an exhaustive taxonomic list; taxonomic nomenclature appears reliable.
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia fischeriana d'Orbigny 1845 scallop
Buchia mosquensis White 1885 scallop
early form
Buchia terebratuloides Lahusen 1888 scallop