Where: British Columbia, Canada (51.0° N, 123.0° W: paleocoordinates 21.2° N, 65.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cassianella beds Member (Tyaughton Formation), Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)
• Cassianella beds contains conodont Epigondolella mosheri and is the type for the early Rhaetian Cochloceras amoenum zone.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C.E. Cairnes, C.H. Crickmay, V. Dolmage; reposited in the GSC
Primary reference: F. H. McLearn. 1942. The neo-Triassic Cassianella fauna of Tyaughton Creek valley, B.C. The Canadian Field-Naturalist 56:99-103 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 135953: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
? Mytilus shulapsensis n. sp.
? Mytilus shulapsensis n. sp. McLearn 1942 mussel | |
Pecten cadwalladerensis McLearn 1942 scallop | |
Myophoria zeballos McLearn 1942 clam |