Also known as MVA(F)85-330A
Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.3° N, 121.8° W: paleocoordinates 21.4° N, 36.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Celia Cove Member (Harrison Lake Formation), Cisuralian (298.9 - 273.0 Ma)
• The Celia Cove Member is Early Jurassic in age, but fossils from the clasts are much older. The conodonts and radiolaria suggest a Middle to Late Triassic (Ladinian to Early Carnian) age for the chert clasts
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: microfossils
Reposited in the GSC
Primary reference: A. J. Arthur, P. L. Smith, J. W. H. Monger and H. W. Tipper. 1993. Mesozoic stratigraphy and Jurassic paleontology west of Harrison Lake, southwestern British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 441:1-62 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 185044: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.04.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Parafusulina sp. Dunbar and Skinner 1931 |