New, biostratigraphically significant ammonites from the Jurassic Fernie Formation, southern Canadian Rocky Mountains
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Jurassic ammonites described here for the first time come from numerous localities in the Fernie Formation in the Foothills and Front Ranges of the Rocky Mountains of north- and south-eastern British Columbia and central- and south-western Alberta, and provide useful new age data for several members of the formation. The occurrence of Orthodactylites sp. in the uppermost beds of the Red Deer Member indicates this unit extends upwards into the basal Toarcian, which will be helpful in the search for carbon-isotope excursions associated with the early Toarcian anoxic event. The presence of Hettangian and lower Pliensbachian strata in outcrop of the Gordondale Member is confirmed. Diversity of the ammonite fauna in the Grey Beds is enlarged by the presence of ? Kepplerites ? Cadomites and Choffatia spp. These faunas also provide biostratigraphic constraints for carbon- and oxygen-isotope trends and UPb ages recently recorded from the Highwood Member and Grey Beds exposed in Bighorn Creek and its eastern tributary, and in Fording River. The first occurrence of Zemistephanus richardsoni from cratonic rocks, recorded here, suggests close proximity of the allochthonous terranes Wrangellia and Stikinia, the only other areas from which this species is known, to the northwest North American craton by early Bajocian time. One new species, Cardioceras (Subvertebriceras) ferniensis, is described.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".