Stuart Lake-Mt Pope Fusulinids, Locality BC-24 (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (54.5° N, 124.4° W: paleocoordinates 18.0° N, 48.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• from limestones near lake level

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 216553: authorized by Barbara Seuss, entered by Barbara Seuss on 18.12.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Eostaffellidae
Millerella sp., "Paramillerella sp." = Eostaffella
"Paramillerella sp." = Eostaffella Rauser-Chernousova 1948
 Fusulinoidea - Profusulinellidae
? Profusulinella sp.
 Fusulinoidea - Pseudostaffellidae
Pseudostaffella sp.
Pseudostaffella sp. Thompson 1942