A new cetacean from the Oligocene Sooke Formation of Vancouver Island, British Columbia

1968 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 929-933 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loris S. Russell
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Vancouver Island ◽  
New Genus And Species

Chonecetus sookensis, new genus and species, is based on an incomplete skull and parts of four vertebrae. It has a relatively elongate, tapering brain case, and a semicircular, depressed supraoccipital shield. It appears to be intermediate between archaeocetes and primitive odontocetes, but is tentatively placed in the Archaeoceti without reference to family.

Longusorbis cuniculosus: A New Genus and Species of Upper Cretaceous Crab; with Comments on Spray Formation at Shelter Point, Vancouver Island, British Columbia

1975 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 1850-1863 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry C. Richards
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Vancouver Island ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Subsequent Formation ◽  
Spray Formation ◽  
The Family ◽  
Excellent Preservation ◽  
Detrital Sediment

Eighty-three fossil crabs, belonging to a new genus and species, and interpreted to be mainly exuviae, were collected from concretions within the Spray Formation at Shelter Point, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. They are assigned to the family Carcineretidae and named Longusorbis cuniculosus. The excellent preservation of the fossil crabs is a consequence of being buried in their own dwelling burrows in the intertidal zone, and subsequent formation of concretions around the specimens very early during diagenesis. Several species of mollusc occur with the crabs, and the faunal assemblage is assigned to the Pachydiscus suciaensis Zone of late Campanian to early Maestrichtian age. The small part of the Spray Formation exposed at Shelter Point contains six units of detrital sediment deposited in environments inferred to range from shallow neritic to supratidal.

Azygokeras columbiae, a New Genus and Species of Marine Epibenthic Copepod (Calanoida: Aetideidae) from British Columbia

1976 ◽  
Vol 33 (7) ◽  
pp. 1547-1552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter A. Koeller ◽  
Jack L. Littlepage
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species

Azygokeras columbiae n.gen., n.sp. can be distinguished from other genera of Aetideidae by the asymmetrical first antennae of the male, the setation of the first two segments of the second antennal exopod of the female, and by the spinulation on basipods and rami of the swimming legs of both sexes. The animal was found only in deep hauls from Bute Inlet and is probably an epibenthic form.

A remarkable small ichthyosaur from the Upper Triassic of British Columbia, representing a new genus and species

1995 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 292-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. McGowan
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Middle Triassic ◽  
Lower Jurassic ◽  
Upper Triassic ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
New Genus And Species

A small, nearly complete ichthyosaur skeleton is described from the Upper Triassic of Williston Lake, in northeastern British Columbia. The age of the material, based on conodonts, is early Norian. Although the length of the entire skeleton would probably not have exceeded 1 m, there is no evidence of immaturity–quite the contrary. Named Hudsonelpidia brevirostris, the new taxon shares some features with Triassic taxa, as exemplified by Mixosaurus from the European Middle Triassic, and with post-Triassic ichthyosaurs like Ichthyosaurus, from the English Lower Jurassic. Mixosaurian characters include an elongate tibia with emarginated pre- and postaxial margins, and phalanges in the hindfin with pre- and postaxial notches. Like Ichthyosaurus, the humérus is elongate rather than broad, so too is the pubis and ischium. Mixosaurus is unusual among Triassic ichthyosaurs for having a relatively large orbit, but the orbit is even more prominent in Hudsonelpidia, probably because of the shortness of the snout. Hudsonelpidia has an unusually large femur that approaches the length of the humérus, dwarfing the rest of the hindfin. The rostrum is unique in being perforated by foramina, but this could possibly be an abnormality.

New amphipods from geothermal vent sites off the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, with a reappraisal of the amphipod family Sebidae

1989 ◽  
Vol 67 (8) ◽  
pp. 1882-1890 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Shaw
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Deep Sea ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Vancouver Island ◽  
The West

Four species of amphipod crustacea were collected from washings of pogonophoran tubes and bacterial mucus taken during submersible investigations of deep-sea geothermal vent sites west of Vancouver Island. Pardalisca endeavouri n.sp. and Sebapro fundus n.sp. are described, and additional records of Oradarea longimana Boeck and Bonnieriella ?linearis are given. In addition, the composition and phylogeny of the Sebidae is examined, and a new genus, Caribseba, is erected for Sebatropica McKinney, 1980.

A New Genus and Species of Aphidae (Homoptera) on Philadelphus sp.

1954 ◽  
Vol 86 (8) ◽  
pp. 346-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. E. MacGillivray
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species

An aphid collected on Philadelphus gordonianus Lindl. at Agassiz, British Columbia, by R. Glendenning was sent to the writer for identification. The specimens could not be determined and extensive examination indicated that a new genus and species of aphid were involved.

Marine reptiles from the Nanaimo Group (Upper Cretaceous) of Vancouver Island

2002 ◽  
Vol 39 (11) ◽  
pp. 1591-1603 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth L Nicholls ◽  
Dirk Meckert
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Vancouver Island ◽  
The Other ◽  
Western Interior Seaway ◽  
Marine Reptiles ◽  
The Pacific

A new fauna of fossil marine reptiles is described from the Late Cretaceous Nanaimo Group of Vancouver Island. The fossils are from the Haslam and Pender formations (upper Santonian) near Courtenay, British Columbia, and include elasmosaurid plesiosaurs, turtles, and mosasaurs. This is only the second fauna of Late Cretaceous marine reptiles known from the Pacific Coast, the other being from the Moreno Formation of California (Maastrichtian). The new Nanaimo Group fossils are some 15 million years older than those from the Moreno Formation. However, like the California fauna, there are no polycotylid plesiosaurs, and one of the mosasaurs is a new genus. This reinforces the provinciality of the Pacific faunas and their isolation from contemporaneous faunas in the Western Interior Seaway.

A new genus and species of polychelid lobster (Crustacea, Decapoda, Eryonidae) from the Early Jurassic (Hettangian) of British Columbia

2013 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodney M. Feldmann ◽  
Carrie E. Schweitzer ◽  
James W. Haggart
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Ventral View ◽  
Decapod Crustacean ◽  
Lower Jurassic ◽  
Lower Latitude ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
The Family ◽  
First Occurrence ◽  
Wrangellia Terrane

A single specimen of decapod crustacean, preserved in ventral view and compressed, represents a new genus and species of eryonid lobster, Wrangelleryon perates. The discovery in Lower Jurassic (Hettangian) sediments of the Sandilands Formation in British Columbia represents the first occurrence of Eryonidae in North America and reinforces a global distribution of the family in the Jurassic. The occurrence in British Columbia on the Wrangellia terrane supports the lower latitude setting in which the species lived.

Stem-group stick insects (Phasmatodea) in the early Eocene at McAbee, British Columbia, Canada, and Republic, Washington, United States of America

2015 ◽  
Vol 147 (6) ◽  
pp. 744-753 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Bruce Archibald ◽  
Sven Bradler
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
New Species ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Early Eocene ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Stem Group ◽  
Stick Insects ◽  
The Republic

AbstractStem-group Phasmatodea, known as the Susumanioidea, are previously established from the Jurassic through the Paleocene. Here, we extend this record to the early Eocene with five new fossils: two forewings from the Klondike Mountain Formation exposures at Republic, Washington, United States of America, and three partially complete specimens from the McAbee locality in southern British Columbia, Canada. We assign both of the Republic specimens to the new genus and species Eoprephasma hichensinew genus, new species. Two of the McAbee fossils appear to represent two further new species, which we refer to as Susumanioidea species A and B for lack of clearly preserved diagnostic species-level character states. The third might belong to one of these two species, but this is unclear. In all three, the mesothorax and metathorax are not notably extended, the forewings are not shortened, the foreleg femur is straight, and species A possesses an extended, external ovipositor with an operculum (unknown in the other specimens). These conditions are rare and never found in combination in Euphasmatodea. All other stem-group Phasmatodea younger than the Early Cretaceous of China are only known from isolated wings.

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