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Cedar District Formation

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Type
  
Formation

Country
  
Canada, United States

Unit of
  
Nanaimo Group

Overlies
  
Protection Formation

Underlies
  
Denman/De Courcy Formation

Area
  
Southeastern Vancouver Island, Gulf Islands, San Juan Islands

Named for
  
Cedar District on Vancouver Island

Regions
  
British Columbia, Washington

The Cedar District Formation is a geologic formation exposed on Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands of British Columbia and San Juan Islands of Washington (state). It preserves fossils dating back to the Campanian Epoch of the Cretaceous period. It dates to the lower mid-Campanian.

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Flora

  • Suciacarpa starrii

    • Fauna

  • Baculites rex
  • Baculites anceps
  • Baculites occidentalis
  • Baculites inornatus
  • Anapachydiscus nelchinensis
  • Metaplacenticeras sp.
  • Canadoceras newberryanum
  • Pachydiscus neevesi
  • Hoplitoplacenticeras vancouverense
  • Gaudryceras denmanense
  • Neophylloceras sp.
  • Condonella suciensis
  • Ornithomimidae indet.
  • Theropoda indet. (possibly Tyrannosauridae)

    • References

    Cedar District Formation Wikipedia
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