Unit 20, Storm Creek Section, Member 3, Norquay Fm (Permian to of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.5° N, 114.7° W: paleocoordinates 20.1° N, 29.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: 3 Member (Norquay Formation), Asselian to Asselian (298.9 - 272.3 Ma)

• Unit 20 of Storm Creek Section (counting from the top). Unit 20 is 75 feet thick.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified, dolomitic limestone and lithified dolomite

• "Porcelanite, dolomitic, gray, pale weathering; appears massive on fresh fracture but weathering reveals very fine lamination due to relief weathering of silty laminae; minor cross-lamination. Twelve feet below top is zone of fossiliferous buff dolomite. Near base is band of black chert nodules; a few inches higher is band with poorly sorted, rounded sand, dark chert granules and pebbles, and debris of silicified fossils, probably derived from underlying bed.

Primary reference: G. O. Raasch. 1958. Upper Paleozoic sections at Highwood Pass, Alberta. Jurassic and Carboniferous of Western Canada 190-215 [N. Heim/N. Heim]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 62371: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 19.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
Euphemites carbonarius
Euphemites carbonarius Cox 1857 snail
E. carbonarius arenarius
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Prodentaliidae
"Dentalium (Plagioglypta) canna" = Prodentalium canna
"Dentalium (Plagioglypta) canna" = Prodentalium canna White 1874 tusk shell