Black Bear Ridge (CM99BBR-6) (Triassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (56.1° N, 123.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 52.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Stikinoceras kerri ammonoid zone, Pardonet Formation, Lacian (221.5 - 215.6 Ma)

• Lower Norian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified limestone

• In the study area, the Pardonet Formation is chiefly dark-gray to black carbonaceous limestone with lesser amounts of calcareous siltstone and shale, and rare thin beds of dolostone.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: C. A. McRoberts. 2011. Late Triassic Bivalvia (Chiefly Halobiidae and Monotidae) from the Pardonet Formation, Williston Lake Area, Northeastern British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 85(4):613-664 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 114937: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Daniel Wellmanns on 25.08.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Halobiidae
Halobia selwyni, Halobia austriaca
Halobia selwyni McRoberts 2011 oyster
Halobia austriaca Mojsisovics 1874 oyster