WH234, 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 225005: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.04.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Cytherellidae
Leviella unicostata Bolz 1970 ostracod
Cytherella "sp. 1" Jones 1849 ostracod
Cytherella "sp. 2" Jones 1849 ostracod
 Platycopida - Cavellinidae
Bektasia "sp. 1" Özdikmen 2010 ostracod
Bektasia "sp. 2" Özdikmen 2010 ostracod
 Podocopida - Healdiidae
Hungarella limella Forel 2022 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
? Ptychobairdia sp. Kollman 1960 ostracod
Bairdia "sp. 2" M'Coy 1844 ostracod
Bairdia "sp. 13" M'Coy 1844 ostracod
Bairdia aksala Forel 2022 ostracod
Bairdia taan Forel 2022 ostracod
 Podocopida -
Cytheroidea indet. Baird 1850 ostracod