Where: British Columbia, Canada (54.5° N, 124.3° W: paleocoordinates 17.9° N, 48.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 298.9 Ma)

• most of the fusulinids herin are indicative of Desmoinesian (Pennsylvanian) age; however, fusulinids collected on the high elevations and from the upper slopes of the mountain east of the village of Pinchi (BC-21, BC-53) and from the upper slopes of Mount Pope (BC-15, BC-18) indicate that the rocks containing them correlate with the lower part of the Permian Wolfcampian rocks in the south-central United States.

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: M.L. Thompson. 1965. Pennsylvanian and Early Permian Fusulinids from Fort St. James Area, British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 39(2):224-234 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss/B. Seuss]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 216548: authorized by Barbara Seuss, entered by Barbara Seuss on 18.12.2020

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