GSC 36446, Alaska Highway (Triassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (58.7° N, 124.2° W: paleocoordinates 28.4° N, 34.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: caurus ammonoid zone, Toad Formation, Aegean (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Lower Anisian, Caurus Zone, Toad Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by B.R. Pelletier in 1958; reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: F. H. McLearn. 1969. Middle Triassic (Anisian) ammonoids from northeastern British Columbia and Ellesmere Island. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 170:1-90 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 43859: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 27.08.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Longobarditidae
Lenotropites tardus n. sp. McLearn 1969 ceratite