Southeast of Kains Lake, Vancouver Island (Triassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (50.7° N, 127.7° W: paleocoordinates 7.5° N, 119.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Quatsino Limestone Formation, Tuvalian (232.0 - 221.5 Ma)

• Middle Quatsino Limestone [JA: originally entered as Carnian; the Dilleri and Welleri zones are both Tuvalian according to Lucas et al. 2012]

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

• Laminated dark limestone and limeshales of uppermost Quatsino Limestone

Primary reference: D. Carlisle and T. Susuki. 1974. Emergent basalt and submergent carbonate-clastic sequences including the Upper Triassic Dilleri and Welleri Zones on Vancouver Island. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 11:254-279 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49650: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 21.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Tropitidae
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Septocardia sp. Hall 1877 cockle