GSC 58385, Monoghan Creek headwaters (Triassic to of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (53.5° N, 119.0° W: paleocoordinates 22.5° N, 35.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Whistler Member (Sulphur Mountain Formation), Bithynian to Bithynian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Talus from lower part of Whistler Member. Mostly Bithynian but could range to Pelsonian (A. wrighti)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. T. Tozer. 1994. Canadian Triassic Ammonoid Faunas. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 467:1-663 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105329: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Longobarditidae
Intornites intornatus McLearn 1946 ceratite
Tetsaoceras hayesi McLearn 1948 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Gymnitidae
Buddhaites hagei McLearn 1946 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Ceratitidae
Anagymnotoceras wrighti McLearn 1946 ceratite