GSC C-118562, Mystery Creek (Jurassic of Canada)

Also known as MVA(F)85-94

Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.5° N, 121.9° W: paleocoordinates 42.6° N, 63.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Macrocephalites macrocephalus ammonoid zone, Mysterious Creek Formation, Early/Lower Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• Early Callovian (Macrocephalus Zone of Europe). This locality is roughly age equivalent to locality 17 and both belong in Callomon's (1984) Cadoceras wosnessenskii Fauna B8(e) of the Western Cordillera.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray sandstone

• Light gray sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: A. J. Arthur, P. L. Smith, J. W. H. Monger and H. W. Tipper. 1993. Mesozoic stratigraphy and Jurassic paleontology west of Harrison Lake, southwestern British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 441:1-62 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 185062: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.04.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Cardioceratidae
Cadoceras sp. ammonite
Cadoceras comma Imlay 1953 ammonite
 Belemnoidea -
Belemnitida indet. Zittel 1895 belemnite
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia sp. Bruguière 1789 clam