GSC 85588, Hook Lake (Triassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (54.8° N, 121.3° W: paleocoordinates 23.1° N, 37.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: meginae ammonoid zone, Vega-Phroso Member (Sulphur Mountain Formation), Longobardian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• subzone 1

• 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 141644: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.03.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Eosagenitidae
Eosagenites gethingi McLearn 1937 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Trachyceratidae
Silenticeras gibsoni n. sp. Tozer 1994 ceratite
Meginoceras triviale Tozer 1994 ceratite
Protrachyceras sikanianum McLearn 1930 ceratite