Whiteaves Bay (D07-Ghost Creek Fm), Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C.: Whiteavesi, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Polymorphitidae
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Acanthopleuroceras whiteavesi
Smith and Tipper 1988
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Tropidoceras masseanum
(d'Orbigny 1844)
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| Tropidoceras masseanum rotunda | ||||||||||
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Tropidoceras actaeon
(d'Orbigny 1844)
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Tropidoceras flandrini
(Dumortier 1869)
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| Tropidoceras flandrini flandrini | ||||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Eoderoceratidae
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Metaderoceras evolutum
(Fucini 1924)
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | British Columbia |
| Coordinates: | 53.2° North, 132.0° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 1.8° North, 126.6° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early Jurassic |
| Stage: | Pliensbachian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 2 | *Epoch: | Lias |
| Key time interval: | Whiteavesi | ||
| Age range of interval: | 189.2 - 186.2 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Maude | Formation: | Ghost Creek |
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | siltstone |
| Secondary lithology: | mudstone |
| Lithology description: for entire formation: dark pyritic shales, occasional sandstones and nodular limestones are present and the top of the formation becomes locally glauconitic in the north. oil stains and bitumen are pervasive (sample taken from siltstone/mudstone horizon) | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 32847 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | K. Layou |
| Modifier: | A. Khan | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-07-16 12:44:02 | Last modified: | 2013-07-16 11:14:26 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-07-16 12:44:02 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 8795. | P. L. Smith and H. W. Tipper. 1996. Pliensbachian (Lower Jurassic) ammonites of the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. Bulletins of American Paleontology 108(348):1-122 [A. Miller/K. Layou/M. Clapham] |