GSC C-118579, Cascade Peninsula (Jurassic of Canada)

Also known as MVA(F)85-226

Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.4° N, 121.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 65.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Billhook Creek Formation, Early/Lower Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• Probably Early Oxfordian; specimens too poorly preserved for positive identification to species level

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained sandstone

• Cleaved fine grained 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 185064: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.04.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Cardioceratidae