Podocotyle araiisp. nov. (Digenea: Opecoelidae) fromSebastesspp. off the coast of British Columbia, with a key to the species ofPodocotyleDujardin, 1845, occurring off the Pacific coast of North America

Earthquakes in the past few thousand years have left signs of land-level change, tsunamis, and shaking along the Pacific coast at the Cascadia subduction zone. Sudden lowering of land accounts for many of the buried marsh and forest soils at estuaries between southern British Columbia and northern California. Sand layers on some of these soils imply that tsunamis were triggered by some of the events that lowered the land. Liquefaction features show that inland shaking accompanied sudden coastal subsidence at the Washington-Oregon border about 300 years ago. The combined evidence for subsidence, tsunamis, and shaking shows that earthquakes of magnitude 8 or larger have occurred on the boundary between the overriding North America plate and the downgoing Juan de Fuca and Gorda plates. Intervals between the earthquakes are poorly known because of uncertainties about the number and ages of the earthquakes. Current estimates for individual intervals at specific coastal sites range from a few centuries to about one thousand years.

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Late Pleistocene stratigraphy of south-central British Columbia

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences ◽

10.1139/e78-105 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 15 (6) ◽

pp. 971-980 ◽

Cited By ~ 49

Author(s):

Robert J. Fulton ◽

Geoffrey W. Smith

Keyword(s):

British Columbia ◽

North America ◽

Great Lakes ◽

Late Pleistocene ◽

Pacific Coast ◽

Coastal Regions ◽

South Central ◽

The Pacific ◽

Valley Area ◽

Coast Region

The late Pleistocene deposits of south-central British Columbia record two major glacial and two major nonglacial periods of deposition. The oldest recognized Pleistocene deposits, called Westwold Sediments, were deposited during a nonglacial interval more than 60 000 years ago. Little information is available on the climate of this period, but permafrost may have been present at one time during final stages of deposition of Westwold Sediments. The latter part of this nonglacial period is probably correlative with the early Wisconsin Substage of the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Valley area. However, deposition of the Westwold Sediments may have begun during the Sangamon Interglacial.Okanagan Centre Drift is the name applied to sediments deposited during the glaciation that followed deposition of Westwold Sediments. Okanagan Centre Drift is known to be older than 43 800 years BP and probably is older than 51 000. It is considered to correlate with an early Wisconsin glacial period.Bessette Sediments were deposited during the last major nonglacial period, which in south-central British Columbia persisted from at least 43 800 years BP (possibly more than 51 000) to about 19 000 years BP. This episode corresponds to Olympia Interglaciation of the Pacific Coast region and the mid-Wisconsin Substage of the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Valley area. During parts of Olympia Interglaciation the climate was probably as warm as the present-day climate in the interior of British Columbia. Information from coastal regions indicates that there may have been periods of cooler and moister climate.Kamloops Lake Drift was deposited during the last major glaciation of south-central British Columbia. Ice occupied lowland areas from approximately 19 000 to 10 000 years BP. This period corresponds approximately to the Fraser Glaciation of the Pacific Coast region and the late Wisconsin Substage of central and eastern parts of North America.

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A New Species of Bradyidius (Copepoda: Calanoida) from the Pacific Coast of North America

Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada ◽

10.1139/f66-074 ◽

1966 ◽

Vol 23 (6) ◽

pp. 805-811 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Tai Soo Park

Keyword(s):

British Columbia ◽

New Species ◽

North America ◽

Pacific Coast ◽

Vancouver Island ◽

Saanich Inlet ◽

The Pacific ◽

A New Species

A new species Bradyidius saanichi from Saanich Inlet, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, is described and illustrated in detail. This species is closely related to B. pacificus (Brodsky, 1950) among the six previously known species in the genus, but can be readily distinguished from the latter by the strongly divergent rostral rami in addition to some other differences.

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Parasites of yellowtail rockfish, Sebastes flavidus (Ayres, 1862) (Pisces: Teleostei), from the Pacific coast of North America as potential biological tags for stock identification

Canadian Journal of Zoology ◽

10.1139/z92-152 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 70 (6) ◽

pp. 1086-1096 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

R. D. Stanley ◽

D. L. Lee ◽

D. J. Whitaker

Keyword(s):

British Columbia ◽

North America ◽

Pacific Coast ◽

Parasite Species ◽

Stock Identification ◽

Latitudinal Cline ◽

Short Term ◽

The Pacific ◽

Stock Assessments ◽

Biological Tags

We assessed the value of parasites of yellowtail rockfish, Sebastes flavidus (Pisces: Teleostei), as biological tags on the Pacific coast of North America. Of the 25 parasite species found, only Microcotyle sebastis (Monogenea: Microcotylidae) showed a latitudinal cline. Prevalence of this flatworm increased from 0–10% in samples from central British Columbia, to 80 and 100% in the California and Oregon samples, respectively. Mean intensity also increased from north to south. The results indicate that stock assessments for yellowtail rockfish, which treat the coastal population as five stocks from central British Columbia to northern California, can assume that harvests in one area will have little short-term impact on distant areas.

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Two species of Grania (Oligochaeta, Enchytraeidae) from the Pacific Coast of North America

Canadian Journal of Zoology ◽

10.1139/z80-146 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 58 (6) ◽

pp. 1037-1041 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Kathryn Coates ◽

Christer Erséus

Keyword(s):

British Columbia ◽

North America ◽

Pacific Coast ◽

The Pacific ◽

Body Appearance

Grania paucispina (Eisen, 1904) and Grania incerta sp.nov. are described, both found in marine sands of California and British Columbia. The species are closely related. Their setae are morphologically very similar, and they both have small glands at their spermathecal openings which distinguish them from other species of the genus. They differ from each other primarily in the distribution of the setae and in body appearance.

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Acanthochondria hippoglossi sp.nov. (Copepoda, Chondracanthidae), a crustacean parasite of some flatfishes off the Pacific coast of North America

Canadian Journal of Zoology ◽

10.1139/z87-033 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 65 (1) ◽

pp. 213-216

Author(s):

Z. Kabata

Keyword(s):

British Columbia ◽

North America ◽

Pacific Coast ◽

The Pacific ◽

Hippoglossus Stenolepis ◽

Hippoglossoides Elassodon

The female of Acanthochondria hippoglossi sp.nov. is described from the flatfishes Hippoglossus stenolepis and Hippoglossoides elassodon, taken off the shores of British Columbia. The confusion existing in the literature between this species and Acanthochondria cornuta is discussed and the presence of the latter species in the Pacific discounted.

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The first record of a trionychid turtle (Testudines: Trionychidae) from the Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast of North America

Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology ◽

10.18435/vamp29336 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 ◽

Author(s):

Matthew J. Vavrek ◽

Donald B. Brinkman

Keyword(s):

British Columbia ◽

North America ◽

Late Cretaceous ◽

Rocky Mountains ◽

Pacific Coast ◽

First Record ◽

Vancouver Island ◽

The Pacific ◽

Western Interior Basin ◽

Cretaceous Deposits

Trionychid turtles were widespread throughout much of the Western Interior Basin of North America during the Cretaceous, represented by a wide variety of taxa. Despite their widespread abundance east of the Rocky Mountains, they have not previously been reported from Cretaceous deposits along the Pacific Coast of North America. We report here on an isolated trionychid costal from Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The fossil was recovered from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian to Maastrichtian) Nanaimo Group, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. While the fossil is generically indeterminate, its presence adds an important datapoint in the biogeographic distribution of Trionychidae.

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