GSC loc. 85407, 88565, 88567 (Jurassic of Canada)

Also known as Tenas Creek

Where: British Columbia, Canada (54.5° N, 127.2° W: paleocoordinates 39.3° N, 70.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Hazelton Group, Bajocian (170.3 - 168.3 Ma)

• Bajocian (?)

Environment/lithology: marine; green sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collected by H.W. Tipper, T. P. Poulton in 1970, 1971; reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: T. P. Poulton. 1979. Jurassic Trigoniid Bivalves from Canada and Western United States of America. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 282 [G. Stanley/H. Shepherd/H. Shepherd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 139094: authorized by George Stanley, entered by Hannah Shepherd on 08.02.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
"Myophorella montanaensis" = Trigonia montanaensis
"Myophorella montanaensis" = Trigonia montanaensis Meek 1873 clam
Hypotypes GSC 43267, 43269 from GSC loc. 88565, 43271 from GSC loc. 88567, and others from 85407