Mt. Rundle, 50-53 m, Banff Formation, Western Alberta (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (51.2° N, 115.6° W: paleocoordinates 1.8° S, 42.4° 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 67308: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.11.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Pulsiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae