Wapiti Lake (Triassic to of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (54.6° N, 120.7° W: paleocoordinates 25.4° N, 34.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Sulphur Mountain Formation, Smithian to Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Schaeffer and Mangus in 1976

Primary reference: R. J. Mutter, K. deBlanger, and A. G. Neuman. 2007. Elasmobranchs from the Lower Triassic Sulphur Mountain Formation near Wapiti Lake (BC, Canada). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 149:309-337 [M. Clapham/T. Wolfe/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119439: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Trisha Wolfe on 26.10.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Elasmobranchii -
? Elasmobranchii indet. Bonaparte 1838 elasmobranch
UALVP and CMN
Elasmobranchii indet. Bonaparte 1838 elasmobranch
UALVP, isolated tooth
 Hybodontiformes - Polyacrodontidae
? Polyacrodontidae indet. Glükman 1964 elasmobranch
TMP and UALVP
 Hybodontiformes - Homalodontidae
"Wapitiodus aplopagus" = Homalodontus aplopagus, "Wapitiodus homalorhizo" = Homalodontus homalorhizo, "Wapitiodidae indet." = Homalodontidae
"Wapitiodus aplopagus" = Homalodontus aplopagus Mutter et al. 2007 elasmobranch
TMP and UALVP
"Wapitiodus homalorhizo" = Homalodontus homalorhizo Mutter et al. 2007 elasmobranch
UALVP
"Wapitiodidae indet." = Homalodontidae Mutter et al. 2008 elasmobranch
UALVP, teeth and skeletal fragments
 Ctenacanthiformes -
? Ctenacanthoidea indet. Zangerl 1981 elasmobranch
TMP 88.98.92