PBDB Collection

Pine River Bridge Section (Triassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (55.5° N, 122.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 52.6° W)

When: Pardonet Formation (Schooler Creek Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, dolomitic, pyritic, black, gray, argillaceous limestone and calcareous siltstone

• The whole complex consists of a dark grey to blackish, silty, slightly argillaceous, pyritic and bituminous limestone dolomitized in varying degree and locally grading into a strongly calcareous siltstone or mudstone of very similar appearance. The lower beds are somewhat thinner bedded and more arenaceous than the upper ones.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by G.E.G. Westermann in 1958, 1959; reposited in the GSC, USNM

Primary reference: G. E. G. Westermann. 1962. Succession and Variation of Monotis and the Associated Fauna in the Norian Pine River Bridge Section, British Columbia (Triassic, Pelecypoda). Journal of Paleontology 36(4):745-792 [G. Stanley/H. Shepherd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 140040: authorized by George Stanley, entered by Hannah Shepherd on 27.02.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
Ostreida - Bakevelliidae	""Gervilleia" aff. goldfussi" = Gervillia ""Gervilleia" aff. goldfussi" = Gervillia oyster
Ostreida - Gryphaeidae	Gryphaea cf. arcuataeformis Gryphaea cf. arcuataeformis Kiparisova 1936 oyster
Pectinida - Oxytomidae	Oxytoma cf. kiparisovae, Meleagrinella aff. antiqua, Meleagrinella cf. antiqua Oxytoma cf. kiparisovae Tozer 1961 scallop Meleagrinella aff. antiqua Tozer 1970 scallop Meleagrinella cf. antiqua Tozer 1970 scallop
Pectinida - Monotidae	"Monotis jakutica" = Monotis (Eomonotis) jakutica, Monotis scutiformis, Monotis aff. scutiformis, "Monotis cf. hoernesi" = Monotis (Monotis) hoernesi, Monotis (Pacimonotis) subcircularis, Monotis (Entomonotis) pachypleura, "Monotis callazonensis n. sp." = Monotis (Entomonotis) callazonensis, "Monotis ochotica" = Monotis (Entomonotis) ochotica, Monotis aff. inaequivalvis "Monotis jakutica" = Monotis (Eomonotis) jakutica Teller 1896 scallop Monotis scutiformis Teller 1886 scallop pinensis n. subsp. Holotype GSC 15721, Paratype GSC 15722 Monotis aff. scutiformis Teller 1886 scallop "Monotis cf. hoernesi" = Monotis (Monotis) hoernesi Kittl 1912 scallop Monotis (Pacimonotis) subcircularis Gabb 1864 scallop Netotype USNM 139099, Hypotype USNM 139102, Topotypes USNM 139100-139101 Monotis (Entomonotis) pachypleura Teller 1886 scallop hemispherica "Monotis callazonensis n. sp." = Monotis (Entomonotis) callazonensis Westermann 1962 scallop Holotype GSC 15723, Paratype McM Tr158 "Monotis ochotica" = Monotis (Entomonotis) ochotica Keyserling 1848 scallop posteroplana n. subsp.; densistriata Monotis aff. inaequivalvis Bronn 1930 scallop
Cardiida - Anthracosiidae	"Anodontophora cf. griesbachi" = Unionites griesbachi "Anodontophora cf. griesbachi" = Unionites griesbachi Bittner 1899 clam
Lucinida - Lucinidae	Schafhaeutlia cf. mellingi Schafhaeutlia cf. mellingi Hauer 1857 clam
Cephalopoda
Ceratitida - Clionitidae	"Choristoceras aff. kellyi" = Sympolycyclus kellyi "Choristoceras aff. kellyi" = Sympolycyclus kellyi Smith 1927 ceratite
Ceratitida - Thetiditidae	Helictites aff. decorus Helictites aff. decorus McLearn 1940 ceratite