Wapiti Lake: Smithian - Spathian, Canada
collected by Schaeffer and Mangus 1976

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes
? Elasmobranchii indet. Bonaparte 1838
4 specimens
UALVP and CMN
Elasmobranchii indet. Bonaparte 1838
1 specimen
UALVP, isolated tooth
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Polyacrodontidae
? Polyacrodontidae indet. Glükman 1964
8 specimens
TMP and UALVP
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Homalodontidae
Wapitiodidae indet. Mutter et al. 2007
6 specimens
replaced by Homalodontidae
UALVP, teeth and skeletal fragments
Wapitiodus homalorhizo Mutter et al. 2007
2 specimens
recombined as Homalodontus homalorhizo
UALVP
Wapitiodus aplopagus Mutter et al. 2007
8 specimens
recombined as Homalodontus aplopagus
TMP and UALVP
Chondrichthyes - Ctenacanthiformes
? Ctenacanthoidea indet. Zangerl 1981
1 specimen
TMP 88.98.92
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:British Columbia
Coordinates: 54.6° North, 120.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.4° North, 34.0° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Early/Lower Triassic
Stage:Olenekian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 1
Key time interval:Smithian - Spathian
Age range of interval:251.20000 - 247.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sulphur Mountain
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified siltstone
Environment:deltaic indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Schaeffer and Mangus Collection dates:1976
Metadata
Database number:119439
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:T. Wolfe
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-10-26 08:58:38 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2011-10-26 08:58:38
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

38319. R. J. Mutter, K. deBlanger, and A. G. Neuman. 2007. Elasmobranchs from the Lower Triassic Sulphur Mountain Formation near Wapiti Lake (BC, Canada). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 149:309-337 [M. Clapham/T. Wolfe/M. Clapham]