ammonites
Mount Brock (lower), Smithers Formation (Jurassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (57.1° N, 130.5° W: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 71.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hazelton Group, Toarcian (183.0 - 175.6 Ma)

• early-middle Toarcian, Hazelton Group, in the "Mount Brock volcanics", it is assumed that this unit is below collection 37555

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; tuff and shelly/skeletal packstone

• volcanics interfinger with fossiliferous sedimentary rocks...a remarkably fossiliferous bioclastic limestone bed.

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 37556: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 16.03.2004

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