Where: British Columbia, Canada (54.5° N, 120.7° W: paleocoordinates 25.3° N, 34.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Vega-Phroso Siltstone Member (Sulphur Mountain Formation), Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• Fish occur through about 30 ft of section, but mostly in the basal 5 ft

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by G. Stucker, H. Champagne (AMNH-NMC expedition) in 1961-1962; reposited in the AMNH

• Also in National Museum of Canada

Primary reference: B. Schaeffer and M. Mangus. 1976. An Early Triassic fish assemblage from British Columbia. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 156(5):515-564 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90301: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.07.2009

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