Brown Hill (CM99BRH-5) (Triassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (56.1° N, 122.9° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 52.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pardonet Formation, Lacian (221.5 - 215.6 Ma)

• Lower Norian; J. magnus or M. dawsoni Zones

• 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

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 115116: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Daniel Wellmanns on 29.08.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea arcuataeformis
Gryphaea arcuataeformis Kiparisova 1936 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Lyriochlamys otianus
Lyriochlamys otianus McLearn 1939 scallop
 Pectinida - Hunanopectinidae
Asoella ireneana
Asoella ireneana McRoberts 2011 scallop