GSC 20255, Union Island (Triassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (50.0° N, 127.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.6° N, 123.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: columbianus ammonoid zone, Parson Bay Formation, Alaunian (215.6 - 212.0 Ma)

• 10 m below Monotis subcircularis beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.A. Jeletzky in 1951; reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: E. T. Tozer. 1994. Canadian Triassic Ammonoid Faunas. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 467:1-663 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 137101: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.12.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Clydonitidae
Clydonites pacificus n. sp. Tozer 1994 ceratite