Quarry on logging spurline 110 (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.2° N, 124.3° W: paleocoordinates 52.9° N, 90.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Haslam Formation, Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• Although no examples of the ammonites Eubostrychoceras or Glyptoxoceras have been found at this locality, the presence of the ammonite Eupachydiscus haradai usheri, as well as 'sphenoceramid' bivalves similar to S. elegans, suggests that the quarry represents the transition from the underlying Eupachydiscus haradai Subzone of the Eubostrychoceras elongatum Zone to the basal beds of the S. schmidti Zone of Jeletzky (1970).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by R. Graham

Primary reference: J. W. Haggart and R. Graham. 2018. The crinoid Marsupites in the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group, British Columbia: resolution of the Santonian-Campanian boundary in the North Pacific Province. Cretaceous Research 87:277-295 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 134730: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 14.10.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Epigoniceras epigonum Kossmat 1895 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
"Hauericeras gardeni" = Hauericeras (Gardeniceras) gardeni
"Hauericeras gardeni" = Hauericeras (Gardeniceras) gardeni Baily 1855 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Eupachydiscus haradai Jimbo 1894 ammonite
ssp. usheri
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam
Sphenoceramus cf. elegans Sokolow 1914 clam
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Callianassidae
Callianassidae indet. Dana 1852 decapod