Where: Yukon, Canada (65.8° N, 139.9° W: paleocoordinates 70.6° N, 73.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Sandstone Formation, Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)
• Collection a composite from the "upper sandstone division" unit of the Porcupine River headwaters section. This succession is assigned a Aptian age, although could potentially fall within the latest Barremian and the Aptian according to Jeletzky (1958).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; sandstone
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 55970: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.11.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Inoceramus cf. neocomiensis" = Neocomiceramus neocomiensis
"Inoceramus cf. neocomiensis" = Neocomiceramus neocomiensis d'Orbigny 1845 clam |