Hatch Creek Section - 285 - 310 meters (Silurian of Canada)

Also known as Was: Beaverfoot Fm, British Columbia, Llandovery - Patzkowsky

Where: British Columbia, Canada (50.3° N, 119.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.0° N, 75.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Stegerhynchus brachiopod zone, Beaverfoot Formation, Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)

• Was Llandovery

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, silty, cherty/siliceous dolomite

• 600 m of carbonate rocks. Deposited in "shallow tropical waters".

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 166386: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 11.02.2015

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Taxonomic list

• Rhynchonellid Brachiopods only.
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae