Also known as Was Beaverfoot Fm, British Columbia, Ashgill - Patzkowsky
Where: British Columbia, Canada (50.4° N, 115.8° W: paleocoordinates 1.9° S, 64.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Beaverfoot Formation, Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)
• Ashgill
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, silty dolomite
•Dolomite with quartz silt
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the GSC
Primary reference: J. Jin, W.G.E. Caldwell, and B.S. Norford. 1989. Rhynchonellid Brachiopods from the Upper Ordovician - Lower Silurian Beaverfoot and Nonda Formations of the Rocky Mountains, British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 396:21-42 [M. Patzkowsky/Z. Krug]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 12703: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 26.11.2001
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Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
"Gnamptorhynchos inversum" = Platystrophia regularis globata
"Gnamptorhynchos inversum" = Platystrophia regularis globata Twenhofel 1928 | |