Hatch Creek Section - 280 - 285 meters: Aeronian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Stegerhynchus praecursor (Foerste 1909)
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Hercotrema winiskensis
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:British Columbia
Coordinates: 50.3° North, 119.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:1.0° North, 75.7° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Silurian Epoch:Llandovery
Stage:Aeronian 10 m.y. bin:Silurian 1
Key time interval:Aeronian Brachiopod zone: Stegerhynchus
Age range of interval:440.80000 - 438.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Beaverfoot
Local section:Hatch Creek Local bed:280 - 285 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Was Llandovery
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified silty dolomite
Lithology description: 600 m of carbonate rocks. Deposited in "shallow tropical waters".
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:GSC
Taxonomic list comments:Rhynchonellid Brachiopods only.
Metadata
Also known as:Was: Beaverfoot Fm, British Columbia, Llandovery - Patzkowsky
Database number:166385
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-02-11 12:58:00 Last modified:2015-02-11 12:58:00
Access level:the public Released:2015-02-11 12:58:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

4248. J. Jin, W.G.E. Caldwell, and B.S. Norford. 1989. Rhynchonellid Brachiopods from the Upper Ordovician - Lower Silurian Beaverfoot and Nonda Formations of the Rocky Mountains, British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 396:21-42 [M. Patzkowsky/A. Krug]