GSC 50006, hill northeast of Mount Stearns (Triassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (57.1° N, 123.3° W: paleocoordinates 26.2° N, 37.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: meginae ammonoid zone, Toad Formation, Longobardian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• subzone 1

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by B.R. Pelletier in 1962; reposited in the GSC

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 137947: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.01.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Trachyceratidae
Meginoceras triviale n. sp. Tozer 1994 ceratite