Azure Lake Section, Marble Peak, Vancouver Island (Permian of Canada)
Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.7° N, 125.7° W: paleocoordinates 0.5° N, 60.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Buttle Lake Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
• Medium to coarse-grained, crinoidal, sparsely fossiliferous, light-colored limestone. Nodules and irregular thin bands of light and dark chert and silicified limestone occur in zones between massive limestone beds. At least one thick bed of dark, richly fossiliferous, dolomitic limestone is present.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R.W. Yole. 1963. An Early Permian fauna from Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology 11:138-149 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 82123: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Identifications are poor.
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Anthozoa | |
? Cladochonus sp. M'Coy 1847 tabulate coral | |
? Caninia sp. Michelin 1840 horn coral | |
Stenolaemata | |
Ulrichotrypa prolifica n. sp.1
Ulrichotrypa prolifica n. sp.1 Fritz 1932 | |
Goniocladia intermedia n. sp.1
Goniocladia intermedia n. sp.1 Fritz 1932 | |
Clausotrypa spinosa n. sp.1
Clausotrypa spinosa n. sp.1 Fritz 1932 | |
"Rhombopora porifera n. sp." = Permoheloclema porifera1
"Rhombopora porifera n. sp." = Permoheloclema porifera1 Fritz 1932 | |
Streblotrypa pulchra n. sp.1
Streblotrypa pulchra n. sp.1 Fritz 1932 | |
? Thamniscus unilateralis n. sp.1
? Thamniscus unilateralis n. sp.1 Fritz 1932 | |
Fenestella cf. pulchradorsalis1, "Fenestella parviuscula" = Alternifenestella horologia1, "Fenestella basleoensis" = Spinofenestella basleoensis1, "Fenestella cf. rottiensis" = Levifenestella rottiensis
Fenestella cf. pulchradorsalis1 Bassler 1929
"Fenestella parviuscula" = Alternifenestella horologia1 Bretnall 1926
"Fenestella basleoensis" = Spinofenestella basleoensis1 Bassler 1929
"Fenestella cf. rottiensis" = Levifenestella rottiensis Bassler 1929 | |
Acanthocladia multipora n. sp.1, Pinnatopora grandis n. sp.1, Polypora cf. macrops, Polypora consanguinea1, Polypora megastoma1, Polypora sykesi1, Polypora vancouverensis n. sp.1, "Phyllopora cf. haimeana" = Protoretepora haimeana1, "Polypora elongata" = Polyporellina fritzi1
Acanthocladia multipora n. sp.1 Fritz 1932
Pinnatopora grandis n. sp.1 Fritz 1932
Polypora consanguinea1 Bassler 1929
Polypora megastoma1 de Koninck 1863
Polypora sykesi1 de Koninck 1863
Polypora vancouverensis n. sp.1 Fritz 1932
"Phyllopora cf. haimeana" = Protoretepora haimeana1 de Koninck 1863
"Polypora elongata" = Polyporellina fritzi1 Sakagami 1970 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Hustedia cf. meekana Shumard 1858 | |
"Cleiothyridina cf. gerardi" = Himathyris gerardi
"Cleiothyridina cf. gerardi" = Himathyris gerardi Diener 1899 | |
Rhynchopora magna2 Cooper 1957 | |
"Laevicamera sp." = Camerisma
"Laevicamera sp." = Camerisma Grant 1965 | |
"Spirifer cf. ufensis" = Brachythyris ufensis
"Spirifer cf. ufensis" = Brachythyris ufensis Tschernyschew 1902 | |
Spiriferella cf. saranae de Verneuil 1845 | |
? Neospirifer "n. sp." Fredericks 1919
Neospirifer sp. Fredericks 1919 | |
"Squamularia cf. rostrata" = Bajkuria rostrata
"Squamularia cf. rostrata" = Bajkuria rostrata Kutorga 1842 | |
Strophomenata | |
"? Muirwoodia sp." = Yakovlevia, Horridonia "sp. B", "Sowerbina bullocki" = Bruntonia bullocki2, Kochiproductus porrectus2
"? Muirwoodia sp." = Yakovlevia Fredericks 1925
Horridonia "sp. B" Chao 1927
"Sowerbina bullocki" = Bruntonia bullocki2 Nelson and Johnson 1968
Kochiproductus porrectus2 Kutorga 1844 | |
"Echinoconchus inexpectatus" = Calliprotonia inexpectatum
"Echinoconchus inexpectatus" = Calliprotonia inexpectatum Cooper 1957 | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
? Aviculopecten sp. M'Coy 1851 scallop | |
? Parallelodon sp. Meek and Worthen 1866 clam | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Foraminifera | |
Tetrataxis sp. Ehrenberg 1854 |