Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.5° N, 115.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 50.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fernie Shale Formation, Early/Lower Jurassic (201.4 - 174.7 Ma)
• At this locality the Fernie Shale lies on sandy beds which are believed to be Triassic in age.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; phosphorite
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P.S. Warren. 1931. A Lower Jurasic Fauna from Fernie, Britsh Columbia. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada 15(4):104-111 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 38365: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 21.04.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
? Chlamys ferniensis n. sp., ? Chlamys sp.
? Chlamys ferniensis n. sp. scallop
? Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop |