Crying Girl Prairie (CM01CGP-18) (Triassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (56.5° N, 122.9° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 32.5° N, 43.7° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gnomohalorites cordilleranus ammonoid zone, Pardonet Formation, Sevatian (211.2 - 205.7 Ma)

• Upper Norian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified limestone

• In the study area, the Pardonet Formation is chiefly dark-gray to black carbonaceous limestone with lesser amounts of calcareous siltstone and shale, and rare thin beds of dolostone.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: C. A. McRoberts. 2011. Late Triassic Bivalvia (Chiefly Halobiidae and Monotidae) from the Pardonet Formation, Williston Lake Area, Northeastern British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 85(4):613-664 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 114927: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Daniel Wellmanns on 25.08.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Monotidae
Monotis (Entomonotis) ochotica
Monotis (Entomonotis) ochotica Keyserling 1848 scallop