Escalante Point, Escalante Fm. type locality (Eocene to of Canada)

Also known as GSC 20527

Where: British Colombia, Canada (49.5° N, 126.6° W: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 110.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

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

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Carcinidae
Portunites alaskensis Rathbun 1926 crab
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Mactra sp. Linnaeus 1767 clam
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"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
Scaphopoda
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Scaphopoda indet. Bronn 1862 tusk shell
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail