Core near Glacier Field, locality 6-27-76-12W6 (Triassic of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (54.6° N, 119.9° W: paleocoordinates 26.2° N, 32.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Lower Member (Montney Formation), Dienerian (252.2 - 251.3 Ma)

• time-equivalent to the Vega-Phroso Siltstone Member of the Sulphur Mountain Formation near Wapiti Lake

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, dolomitic, pyritic, gray, argillaceous siltstone

• representing an anoxic, deep shelf environment.
• dark grey, dense, very fine-textured dolomitic, slightly argillaceous and micropyritic siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. V. H. Wilson

• Repository: Core is on display at the Core Research Centre of the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board in Calgary.

Primary reference: G. R. Davies, T. F. Moslow, and M. D. Sherwin. 1997. Ganoid fish Albertonia sp. from the Lower Triassic Montney Formation, Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. Bulltein of Canadian Petroleum Geology 45:715-718 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154190: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 31.01.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Parasemionotiformes - Parasemionotidae
Albertonia sp. Gardiner 1966 ray-finned fish