GSC 57155, Section 116C-2, Tatonduk River (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Yukon, Canada (65.0° N, 140.9° W: paleocoordinates 29.4° N, 30.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Orthotichia-Septospirifer brachiopod zone, Jungle Creek Formation, Kasimovian (307.0 - 303.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, silty shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. W. Bamber and J.B. Waterhouse. 1971. Carboniferous and Permian Stratigraphy and Paleontology, Northern Yukon Territory, Canada. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology 19(1):29-250 [T. Olszewski/M. Gibson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10265: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Melissa Gibson on 25.03.2001, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
 Spiriferida - Brachythyrididae
Brachythyris sp. M'Coy 1844
 Spiriferida - Spiriferellidae
Spiriferella yukonensis Waterhouse and Waddington 1982