Section 69, Sample 9F, Flathead Pass (Carboniferous of Canada)

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

• Lithologies are from stratigraphic columns of Text-Fig. 2 of the article.

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

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Taxonomic list

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Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbya cf. robusta
Derbya cf. robusta Hall 1858
This is the spelling in the article. No formal description.
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita cf. subquadrata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer cf. matheri