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