Where: Alberta, Canada (50.5° N, 114.7° W: paleocoordinates 8.6° N, 37.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: 3 Member (Tunnel Mountain Formation), Chesterian (335.5 - 323.2 Ma)
• Unit 39 of Storm Creek Section (counting from the top). This unit is 8.5 feet thick.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, dolomitic, shelly/skeletal, gray, sandy siltstone
Primary reference: G. O. Raasch. 1958. Upper Paleozoic sections at Highwood Pass, Alberta. Jurassic and Carboniferous of Western Canada 190-215 [N. Heim/N. Heim]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 62380: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 19.07.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
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Bivalvia | |
Myalina sp. de Koninck 1842 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Dielasma sp. King 1856 | |
Cleiothyridina sublamellosa Hall 1858 | |
Spirifer increbescens Hall 1858 | |
Strophomenata | |
Orthotetes kaskaskiensis McChesney 1860 |