Where: Alberta, Canada (53.7° N, 119.3° W: paleocoordinates 27.9° N, 29.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ranger Canyon Formation, Wordian to Wordian (268.8 - 259.9 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, cherty/siliceous siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. Logan and A. McGugan. 1968. Biostratigraphy and faunas of the Permian Ishbel Group, Canadian Rocky Mountains. Journal of Paleontology 42(5):1123-1139 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 112837: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.07.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Tergomya | |
Lepetopsis sp. Whitfield 1882 | |
Rostroconchia | |
"Conocardium" sp. Bronn 1835 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Liosotella aff. delicatula" = Anemonaria delicatula, ? Liosotella sp.
"Liosotella aff. delicatula" = Anemonaria delicatula Dunbar 1955
? Liosotella sp. Cooper 1953 | |
"Echinoconchus inexpectatus" = Calliprotonia inexpectatum
"Echinoconchus inexpectatus" = Calliprotonia inexpectatum Cooper 1957 | |
"Costiferina cf. arctica" = Thamnosia arctica, Krotovia sp.
"Costiferina cf. arctica" = Thamnosia arctica Whitfield 1908
Krotovia sp. Fredericks 1928 | |
Linoproductus sp. Chao 1927 | |
Sphenalosia smedleyi Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchopora sp. King 1865 | |
Hustedia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Fenestellidae indet. King 1850 |