JBW590, Ettrain Creek (Permian of Canada)

Where: Yukon, Canada (65.3° N, 140.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 25.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yakovlevia brachiopod zone, Jungle Creek Formation, Sakmarian (295.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Bruce Waterhouse in 1968-1972

Primary reference: G. R. Shi and J.B. Waterhouse. 1996. Lower Permian brachiopods and molluscs from the upper Jungle Creek Formation, northern Yukon Territory, Canada. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 424:1-241 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117754: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Exochorhynchus similis Lutkevitch and Lobanova 1960 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae