GSC C-87090f (MO80/2f), Canada Lafarge Cement Quarry, Kamloops (Permian of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (50.7° N, 120.1° W: paleocoordinates 17.3° N, 44.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Harper Ranch Group, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• Conodont fauna 1 of Orchard (1984) and Orchard & Forster (1988)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• Carbonate lithofacies are varied and range from thin-bedded micrite to massive, coarse-grained biosparite; some limestones are silicified and many are partly dolomitized.

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collection methods: bulk, chemical,

Primary reference: S. Crasquin-Soleau and M. J. Orchard. 1994. Upper Paleozoic ostracodes of the Harper Ranch beds (south-central British Columbia, Canada). Micropaleontology 40(3):242-254 [S. Crasquin/M. Troy/M. Troy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106669: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.03.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Paraparchitidae
Paraparchites texanus Delo 1930 ostracod
Paraparchites cf. finiplanus GrĂ¼ndel 1961 ostracod
 Platycopida - Kloedenellidae
Pseudobeyrichiopsis gerryi n. sp. Crasquin-Soleau 1994 ostracod
 Platycopida - Miltonellidae
Miltonella "sp. 1" Sohn 1950 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdia "sp. 4" M'Coy 1844 ostracod
Bairdia cf. garrisonensis Upson 1933 ostracod
Bairdia elongatella Sohn 1960 ostracod
Bairdia cf. scholli Coryell and Booth 1933 ostracod
Bairdia permiana Hamilton 1942 ostracod
Bairdia (Rectobairdia) cf. powersi Kellett 1934 ostracod
"Bairdia cf. coryelli" = Cryptobairdia coryelli Roth and Skinner 1931 ostracod
"Bairdia (Cryptobairdia) cf. seminalis" = Cryptobairdia seminalis Knight 1928 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Knightinidae
Knightina cf. bassleri Kellett 1933 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Kirkbyidae
? Aurikirkbya cf. wordensis Hamilton 1942 ostracod
Reviya "sp. 1" ostracod
Reviya "sp. 2" ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Amphissitidae
Amphissites carinodus Cooper 1957 ostracod
Amphissites centronotus Ulrich and Bassler 1906 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Placideidae
Placidea cf. lutkevichi Spitzharsky 1939 ostracod