GSC 46484, Mount Cornock (Triassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (54.7° N, 121.0° W: paleocoordinates 22.9° N, 37.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: matutinum ammonoid zone, Llama Member (Sulphur Mountain Formation), Fassanian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• Unit 3, section 11 (Pelletier, 1963)

• 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. 1980. New genera of Triassic Ammonoidea. Current Research, Part A. Geological Survey of Canada Paper 80-1A:107-113 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 137681: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.12.2012

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Ceratitidae
Pleurofrechites fellersi Tozer 1994 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Longobarditidae
Longobardites murrayensis Tozer 1994 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Ptychitidae
Ptychites hamatus Tozer 1994 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Trachyceratidae
Eoprotrachyceras matutinum Tozer 1980 ceratite