GSC 79408, Nakina Lake (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (59.0° N, 132.6° W: paleocoordinates 22.1° N, 52.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Horsefeed Formation (Cache Creek Group), Pendleian (330.9 - 327.0 Ma)

• Lower part of formation, dated by smaller foraminifera as Foraminiferal Zone 18 (of Mamet), equivalent to late early Namurian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.W.H. Monger

Collection methods: peel or thin section

Primary reference: W. S. Wu, C. H. Stevens, and E. W. Bamber. 1985. New Carboniferous and Permian Tethyan and Boreal corals from northwestern British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 59:1489-1504 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120765: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Pseudopavonidae
Parapavona major n. gen. n. sp.
Parapavona major n. gen. n. sp. Wu et al. 1985 horn coral
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Siphonodendron sp. McCoy 1849 horn coral