Where: British Columbia, Canada (53.2° N, 132.1° W: paleocoordinates 2.3° N, 126.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Carlottense ammonoid zone, Fannin Formation (Maude Group), Late/Upper Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)
• Informal Radiolarian Zone 1 (correlates with Propinquum Ammonite Zone); meters indicate distance from top of Fannin Fm
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, calcareous sandstone
•lithology of sample/(sequence): interbedded medium gray sandstone (..., dark gray siltstone and rare shale)
Size class: microfossils
Reposited in the GSC
• collected by B.E.B. Cameron, 1980; focus on radiolarians
Primary reference: E.S. Carter, B.E.B. Cameron, and P.L. Smith. 1988. Lower and Middle Jurassic radiolarian biostratigraphy and systematic paleontology, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 386:1-109 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner] more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 71080: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 18.04.2007, edited by Adam Kocsis