GSC 85550, Meosin Mountain (Triassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (54.3° N, 120.3° W: paleocoordinates 23.6° N, 35.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: chischa ammonoid zone, Llama Member (Sulphur Mountain Formation), Illyrian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D.W. Gibson in 1970; 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 141641: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.03.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Ceratitidae
Frechites chischa Tozer 1967 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Parapopanoceratidae
Parapopanoceras sp. Haug 1894 ceratite