Section 64, Sample 10F, Crossing Creek Ridge (Permian of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (50.0° N, 115.0° W: paleocoordinates 22.2° N, 29.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Ishbel Formation (Rocky Mountain Group), Permian (298.9 - 251.9 Ma)

• In this section, the age is Lower to Middle Permian. The type succession of the Permo-Carboniferous Rocky Mountain Group in the Banff area is divided into three formations (from the top downwards): Ishbel formation, Kananaskis formation, and Tunnel Mountain formation. The Rocky Mountain Group is underlain by Mississippian carbonates of the Rundle Group, and overlain by shales of Lower Triassic age.

Environment/lithology: marine; siltstone and lenticular limestone

• Lithologies are from stratigraphic columns of Text-Fig. 2 of the article.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Collection from 70 feet below the Triassic contact.

Primary reference: A. McGugan. 1963. A Permian brachiopod and fusulinid fauna from the Elk Valley, British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 37(3):621-627 [T. Olszewski/L. Fall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61640: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Leigh Fall on 21.06.2006

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Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Schwagerinidae
Schwagerina rapsoni n. sp.