Clearwater Creek (CM99CWC-1) (Triassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (56.0° N, 123.2° W: paleocoordinates 21.7° N, 59.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pardonet Formation, Tuvalian (232.0 - 221.5 Ma)

• As the entire collection comes from beds in which ammonoids and conodonts are unknown, the age assignment is largely based on geographic position within rocks mapped as Pardonet Formation in close proximity to the stratigraphic contact with the Luddington Formation; most likely upper Carnian, presumably T. welleri Zone.

• 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: recrystallized

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 114915: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Daniel Wellmanns on 25.08.2011, edited by Sabine Nürnberg

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Halobiidae
Halobia tozeri n. sp. McRoberts 2011 oyster