Red Point on Kamloops Lake: Middle Eocene, Canada
collected by Rose, B. -1914
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Actinopteri
- Hiodontiformes
- Hiodontidae
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Eohiodon rosei n. gen., n. sp.
(Hussakof 1916)
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | British Columbia |
| Coordinates: | 50.8° North, 120.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 54.1° North, 108.5° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2-3 | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Eocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 47.80000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Kamloops | Formation: | Tranquille Beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | tuff |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | NMC | ||
| Collectors: | Rose, B. | Collection dates: | pre-1914 |
| Taxonomic list comments:Only the four fish specimens are said to have been ever collected here | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 192126 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Holroyd | Enterer: | P. Holroyd | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2018-03-10 16:25:33 | Last modified: | 2018-03-10 16:25:33 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-03-10 16:25:33 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 64991. | T. Cavender. 1966. Systematic Position of the North American Eocene Fish, "Leuciscus" rosei Hussakof. Copeia 1966(2):311-320 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] |