Where: British Columbia, Canada (50.0° N, 115.0° W: paleocoordinates 11.8° N, 34.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Tunnel Mountain Formation (Rocky Mountain Group), Morrowan (323.2 - 318.6 Ma)
• The type succession of the Permo-Carboniferous Rocky Mountain Group in the Banff area is divided into three formations (from the top downwards): Ishbel formation, Kananaskis formation, and Tunnel Mountain formation. The Rocky Mountain Group is underlain by Mississippian carbonates of the Rundle Group, and overlain by shales of Lower Triassic age.
Environment/lithology: marine; silty dolomite and dolomitic siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. McGugan. 1963. A Permian brachiopod and fusulinid fauna from the Elk Valley, British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 37(3):621-627 [T. Olszewski/L. Fall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 61637: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Leigh Fall on 21.06.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Composita cf. subquadrata Hall 1858 | |