Where: Yukon, Canada (68.0° N, 136.5° W: paleocoordinates 50.2° N, 60.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Murray Ridge Formation (Bug Creek Group), Hettangian (201.3 - 199.3 Ma)
• from the basal member of the formation
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 34240: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 22.08.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
? Badouxia sp. Guex and Taylor 1976 ammonite | |
? Ectocentrites sp. Canavari 1888 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
? Grammatodon sp. Meek and Hayden 1860 clam | |
? Pseudomytiloides sp. Koschelkina 1963 clam | |
Oxytoma sp. Meek and Hayden 1865 scallop
Oxytoma (Oxytoma) sp. Meek 1864 scallop
? Meleagrinella sp. Whitfield 1855 scallop | |
Harpax cf. spinosus scallop | |
"Lima (Lima) parva" = Limea (Pseudolimea) parva
"Lima (Lima) parva" = Limea (Pseudolimea) parva Milova 1976 file clam | |
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop | |
? Eopecten sp. Douvillé 1897 scallop | |
Kolymonectes staeschei Polubotko 1968 scallop | |
? Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster | |
"Ostrea" sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Homomya sp. Agassiz 1843 clam | |
? Thracia sp. Blainville 1824 clam | |
? Pleuromya sp. Meek 1873 clam
Pleuromya galathea Agassiz 1842 clam | |
? Corbicula sp. Megerle 1811 clam | |
? Isocardia sp. Lamarck 1799 clam | |
? Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchonellida indet. Kuhn 1949 | |
Malacostraca | |
? Cardinia sp. Edwards 1837 decapod | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily |