Dick Booth Creek, Vancouver Island (Triassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (50.7° N, 127.6° 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)

• The beds sampled are descirbed as transitional between the Quatsino Limestone and the Parson Bay Formation, and are assigned to the Welleri Zone. The text describes separate faunas from a lower and an upper bed [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: gray limestone and black mixed carbonate-siliciclastic

• Medium gray limestone beds 2 to 10 inches (5-25cm) thick interbedded with black limeshale.

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 49695: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 24.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Tropitidae
Discotropites sp. Hyatt and Smith 1905 ceratite
Tropites sp. Mojsisovics 1875 ceratite
Tropites cf. welleri Smith 1927 ceratite
zone fossil
 Ceratitida - Haloritidae
Anatomites sp. Mojsisovics 1893 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Arcestidae
Proarcestes sp. Mojsisovic 1893 ceratite
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Halobiidae