Wapiti Lake, locality B (Triassic of Canada)

Also known as B cirque

Where: British Columbia, Canada (54.5° N, 120.7° W: paleocoordinates 25.3° N, 34.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Vega-Phroso Siltstone Member (Sulphur Mountain Formation), Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; shale and marl

• The Sulphur Mountain Formation con- sists of a series of marine siltstones, silty limestones, and fine-grained sandstones

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology field crew; reposited in the TMP

Primary reference: E. L. Nicholls and D. Brinkman. 1993. New thalattosaurs (Reptilia: Diapsida) from the Triassic Sulphur Mountain Formation of Wapiti Lake, British Columbia. Journal of Paleontology 67(2):263-278 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152277: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 15.11.2013, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Thalattosauria -
Paralonectes merriami
Paralonectes merriami Nicholls and Brinkman 1993 diapsid
TMP 91.120.21. Vomer, both maxillae, right premaxilla and pterygoid
 Ichthyosauria - Mixosauridae
Phalarodon nordenskioeldii
Phalarodon nordenskioeldii Hulke 1873 ichthyosaur
TMP 89.129.1, skull and lower jaws, cervical and anterior dorsal vertebrae, scattered ribs; TMP 89.129.2, maxilla with teeth, isolated posterior dentary tooth, scattered centra, neural spines and ribs; TMP 91. 120.2, vertebrae; TMP 91.120.7, maxilla; TMP 91.120.8, skull elements; TMP 91.120.16, incomplete skull and cervicals