GSC 46467, Crying Girl Prairie Creek (Triassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (56.5° N, 122.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 53.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: rutherfordi ammonoid zone, Pardonet Formation, Alaunian (215.6 - 212.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by B.R. Pelletier in 1961; reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: E. T. Tozer. 1994. Canadian Triassic Ammonoid Faunas. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 467:1-663 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 137674: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.12.2012

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Tibetitidae
Cyrtopleurites hersiliae Diener 1920 ceratite
Hauerites astrictus n. sp. Tozer 1994 ceratite