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 | |
Intornites intornatus McLearn 1946 ceratite
Tetsaoceras hayesi McLearn 1948 ceratite | |
Buddhaites hagei McLearn 1946 ceratite | |
Anagymnotoceras wrighti McLearn 1946 ceratite |