Where: British Columbia, Canada (59.1° N, 128.2° W: paleocoordinates 4.0° N, 61.2° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Coralline Member, Clinton (439.0 - 438.0 Ma)
• No formation name; Sandpile Group, "Coralline" member.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; black, gray, cherty/siliceous dolomite and chert
Preservation: replaced with silica
Reposited in the GSC
Primary reference: B. S. Norford. 1962. The Silurian fauna of the Sandpile Group of northern British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 78:1-51 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 5145: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 31.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
Asthenophyllum cf. occidentale horn coral | |
Ptychophyllum sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 horn coral | |
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"Cystihalysites magnitubus" = Halysites magnitubus Buehler 1955 tabulate coral
Catenipora simplex tabulate coral | |
Romingeria niagarensis tabulate coral | |
Auloporella cf. typa tabulate coral | |
Favosites cf. brownsportensis tabulate coral | |
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral | |
Strophomenata | |
Leptelloidea sp. Jones 1928 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Atrypa parva, Atrypa gabrielsi n. sp.
Atrypa gabrielsi n. sp. | |
Hesperorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
Isorthis sp. Kozlowski 1929 | |
Pentamerus sp. Sowerby 1813 | |
? Clorinda sp. Barrande 1879 |