Where: British Columbia, Canada (56.1° N, 123.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 53.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pardonet Formation, Alaunian (215.6 - 212.0 Ma)

• Middle Norian; Sample 82BBR20 from Gibson&Edwards Unit 18, Zones: Serrulata (Conodont), Columbites III (Ammonoid)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified, silty, carbonaceous limestone and lithified, dolomitic, calcareous siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: M. J. Orchard, J. P. Zonneveld, M. J. Johns, C. A. McRoberts, M. R. Sandy, E. T. Tozer, and G. G. Carrelli. 2001. Fossil succession and sequence stratigraphy of the Upper Triassic of Black Bear Ridge, northeast British Columbia, a GSSP prospect for the Carnian-Norian boundary. Albertiana 25:10-22 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47388: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 23.02.2005

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