Also known as Peace Reach; East of Indian Head; GSC locality C-176546
Where: British Columbia, Canada (56.1° N, 123.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 52.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• horizon is "at the top of the early Norian" based on conodont zonation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by K. Seymour, B. Iwama, A. Leitch, S. Samson, C. Mcgowan in 1988; reposited in the GSC, ROM
Primary reference: C. Mcgowan. 1994. A new species of Shastasaurus (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) from the Triassic of British Columbia: the most complete exemplar of the genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14(2):168-179 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 90337: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 16.07.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Conodonta | |
Epigondolella triangularis conodont | |
Reptilia | |
"Shastasaurus neoscapularis n. sp." = Callawayia neoscapularis
"Shastasaurus neoscapularis n. sp." = Callawayia neoscapularis Mcgowan 1994 ichthyosaur |