ammonites
GSC Loc. 14737 - Sikanni River [Sikanni Fm] (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (58.3° N, 121.8° W: paleocoordinates 59.7° N, 68.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sikanni Formation (Fort St. John Group), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Sikanni Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Early to middle Late Albian, on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy; Neogastroplites zone, N. selwyni or N. cornutus subzone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From third sandstone of Sikanni Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, glauconitic, calcareous sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Not stated in text, but apparently marine siliciclastic.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Fine-grained, calcareous, glauconitic sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Burling in 1944; reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: L.D. Burling, 1944. REPOSITORY: Geological Survey of Canada (GSC).

Primary reference: J. A. Jeletzky. 1964. Illustration of canadian fossils. Lower Cretaceous marine index fossils of the sedimentary basins of western and Arctic Canada. Geological Survey of Canada Paper 64(11):1-101 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87385: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.03.2009

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