GSC 42321, Mount McLearn (Triassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (59.1° N, 125.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 46.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: welleri ammonoid zone, Baldonnel Formation, Tuvalian (232.0 - 221.5 Ma)

• subzone 2

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E.T. Tozer in 1960; reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: surface (float)

Primary reference: E. T. Tozer. 1994. Canadian Triassic Ammonoid Faunas. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 467:1-663 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 137245: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.12.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Tropitidae
Discotropites theron Dittmar 1866 ceratite