Where: British Columbia, Canada (54.8° N, 127.6° W: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 70.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ashman Formation, Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)
• Bathonian-late Bathonian, approx 30 m above the base of the section
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; green, yellow sandstone and tuffaceous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. Palfy, P. L. Smith, and J. K. Mortensen. 2000. A U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar time scale for the Jurassic. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 37(6):923-944 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 37608: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 18.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
? Lilloettia sp., Lilloettia cf. lilloetensis, Xenocephalites sp., Xenocephalites cf. vicarius, Iniskinites sp.
? Lilloettia sp. Crickmay 1930 ammonite
Lilloettia cf. lilloetensis Crickmay 1930 ammonite
Xenocephalites sp. ammonite
Xenocephalites cf. vicarius Imlay 1953 ammonite | |
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