R cirque, Fossil Fish Lake, Wapiti Lake (Triassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (54.5° N, 120.7° W: paleocoordinates 25.3° N, 34.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Vega-Phroso Siltstone Member (Sulphur Mountain Formation), Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• Exact layer is unknown

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black siltstone

• Thickly laminated black siltstones

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Specimens at University of Alberta

Primary reference: R. J. Mutter and A. G. Neuman. 2008. New eugeneodontid sharks from the Lower Triassic Sulphur Mountain Formation of western Canada. In L. Cavin, A. Longbottom, M. Richter (eds.), Fishes and the Break-up of Pangaea. Geological Society, London, Special Publication 295:9-41 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122091: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Eugeneodontiformes - Caseodontidae
Fadenia sp. Nielsen 1932 chimaera