Cobblestone Creek, 130 m, Banff Formation, Western Alberta (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (53.1° N, 118.1° W: paleocoordinates 0.6° N, 41.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Banff Formation, Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• lower Banff Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. L. Carter. 1987. Lower Carboniferous brachiopods from the Banff Formation of Western Alberta. Bulletin Geological Survey of Canada 378:1-183 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67244: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.11.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Pulsiidae
 Productida - Productidae
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Strophopleuridae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae