OST8, 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: slope; 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 225010: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.04.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Cavellinidae
Bektasia "sp. 3" Ă–zdikmen 2010 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdia "sp. 4" M'Coy 1844 ostracod
 Podocopida - Candonidae
"Aglaiocypris" sp. Sylvester-Bradley 1947 ostracod
? Paracypris "sp. 1" Sars 1866 ostracod
Paracypris "sp. 6" Sars 1866 ostracod
 Podocopida - Macrocyprididae
 Podocopida - Pontocyprididae
 Myodocopida - Polycopidae