WH227, Lime Peak (Triassic of Canada)

Where: Yukon, Canada (61.1° N, 134.9° W: paleocoordinates 28.6° N, 74.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aksala Formation (Lewes River Group), Sevatian (212.0 - 205.6 Ma)

• Upper Norian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: chemical

• Repository: Natural History Museum of Geneva (MHNG)

Primary reference: M. B. Forel, N. Del Piero, S. Rigaud and R. Martini. 2022. Ostracods from the Late Triassic (Norian) of Yukon, Canada: new taxonomic and palaeobiogeographic insights. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 128:325-368 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 225004: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.04.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Healdiidae
Hungarella limella Forel 2022 ostracod
 Podocopida - Candonidae
? Paracypris "sp. 2" Sars 1866 ostracod
Paracypris "sp. 4" Sars 1866 ostracod
 Podocopida - Macrocyprididae
 Podocopida - Bythocytheridae
 Podocopida - Sigilliidae
? Cardobairdia "sp. 2" van den Bold 1960 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Lobobairdia whitella Forel 2022 ostracod
Bairdia "sp. A" M'Coy 1844 ostracod
Bairdia "sp. 2" M'Coy 1844 ostracod
Bairdia "sp. 8" M'Coy 1844 ostracod
Bairdia "sp. 9" M'Coy 1844 ostracod
Bairdia "sp. 12" M'Coy 1844 ostracod
Bairdia "sp. 13" M'Coy 1844 ostracod
Bairdia cf. balatonica Mehes 1911 ostracod
Bairdia aksala Forel 2022 ostracod
Bairdia taan Forel 2022 ostracod
 Platycopida - Cytherellidae
Cytherella "sp. 1" Jones 1849 ostracod
Leviella unicostata Bolz 1970 ostracod
 Platycopida - Cavellinidae
Bektasia "sp. 2" Ă–zdikmen 2010 ostracod