Lime Peak (Stikinia terrane) (Triassic of Canada)

Where: Yukon, Canada (61.2° N, 135.3° W: paleocoordinates 27.7° N, 72.5° W)

When: Hancock Member (Aksala Formation), Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 201.4 Ma)

• Late Norian

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Lagoonal limestone (Wackestone to rudstone)
• Lime Peak is one of the Upper Triassic limestone bodies which form a northeast trending belt along the East side of Lake Laberge. These massive to stratified carbonates, are part of the Hancock Member of the Aksala Formation (Bostock & Lees 1938; Hart 1997; Tozer 1958)

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, replaced with calcite

Primary reference: I. I. Bucur, S. Rigaud, N. Del Piero, A. Fucelli, E. Heerwagen, C. Peybernes, G. Peyrotty, C. Verard, J. Chablais and R. Martini. 2020. Upper Triassic calcareous algae from the Panthalassa Ocean. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 126(2):499-540 [W. Kiessling/T. Jujihara]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 234326: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Toshiro Jujihara on 28.03.2024

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Patruliuspora pacifica n. sp.
Patruliuspora pacifica n. sp.
WH-259 [MHNG-GEPI-2020-0024]
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Triploporellaceae
Holosporella ? rossanae