Railway cutting west of Massive (MCZ coll) (Triassic of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (51.2° N, 115.8° W: paleocoordinates 20.9° N, 33.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Spray River Formation, Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Joseph P. Day, Harvard Summer School of Geology in 1924

Primary reference: P. E. Raymond. 1925. Two new fossil fishes from Alberta. The American Journal of Science, Fifth Series 10(60):551-555 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122046: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Saurichthyiformes - Saurichthyidae
"Belonorhynchus dayi n. sp." = Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) dayi
"Belonorhynchus dayi n. sp." = Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) dayi Raymond 1925 ray-finned fish