Where: Yukon, Canada (68.1° N, 138.1° W: paleocoordinates 60.6° N, 54.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Kingak Formation, Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)
• collection from Gryphaea beds
Environment/lithology: marine; shale and siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the GSC
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: T.P. Poulton. 1991. Hettangian through Aalenian (Jurassic) guide fossils and biostratigraphy, Northern Yukon and adjacent Northwest Territories. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin (410)1-95 [A. Miller/K. Layou/K. Layou]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34210: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 21.08.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Bivalvia | |
Oxytoma sp. Meek and Hayden 1865 scallop | |
? Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster | |
? Pleuromya sp. Meek 1873 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Terebratulida indet. Waagen 1883 | |
Rhynchonellida indet. Kuhn 1949 |