ammonites
McDonell Lake, Ashman Formation, bed M2 (Jurassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (54.8° N, 127.6° W: paleocoordinates 41.1° N, 71.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ashman Formation, Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 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

• strata are disrupted by block faults in the vicintity of McDonell Lake
• well-bedded, fossiliferous, green to buff, lithic sandstone, strongly reworked tuff or 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

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