GSC 56923, Section 116C-2, Tatonduk River (Permian of Canada)

Where: Yukon, Canada (65.0° N, 140.9° W: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 29.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yakovlevia brachiopod zone, Jungle Creek Formation, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• Between 596 and 612 feet above base of Jungle Creek Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E.W. Bamber in 1962

Primary reference: E. W. Bamber and J.B. Waterhouse. 1971. Carboniferous and Permian Stratigraphy and Paleontology, Northern Yukon Territory, Canada. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology 19(1):29-250 [T. Olszewski/M. Gibson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116370: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Ditomopyge sp.1 Newell 1931 trilobite
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limipectinidae
Acanthopecten licharewi2 Fredericks 1915 scallop
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Brachythyrididae
Brachythyris sp. M'Coy 1844