Also known as GSC 20527
Where: British Colombia, Canada (49.5° N, 126.6° W: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 110.3° W)
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When: Escalante Formation (Carmanah Group), Bartonian to Bartonian (41.3 - 33.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, green, calcareous sandstone and pebbly, calcareous conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. A. Jeletzky. 1975. Age and depositional environment of the lower part of Escalante Formation, western Vancouver Island, British Columbia . Geological Survey of Canada Paper 75(1C):9-16 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 209752: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 14.05.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Portunites alaskensis Rathbun 1926 crab | |
Bivalvia | |
Mactra sp. Linnaeus 1767 clam | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Scaphopoda indet. Bronn 1862 tusk shell | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail |