Also known as Reef 4024. Salient Mountain biostromes
Where: British Columbia, Canada (53.0° N, 118.7° W: paleocoordinates 49.9° S, 103.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Byng Formation (Miette Group), Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: intrashelf or intraplatform reef; lithified bindstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: H. J. Hofmann and E. W. Mountjoy. 2001. Namacalathus-Cloudina assemblage in Neoproterozoic Miette Group (Byng Formation), British Columbia: Canada's oldest shelly fossils. Geology 29(12):1091-1094 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 97710: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 25.08.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Platella | |
cf. Platella sp. Korolyuk 1963 | |
Namacalathus hermanastes | |
Namacalathus hermanastes Grotzinger et al. 2000 | |
Cloudina hartmannae | |
Cloudina hartmannae Germs 1972 |