Lake Minnewanka, 64-65 m, Banff Formation, Western Alberta (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (51.3° N, 115.5° W: paleocoordinates 1.8° S, 42.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; 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 67303: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.11.2006

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Pulsiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Terebratulida - Beecheriidae