Sulphur River Headwaters, Section 120, Rocky Mountains (Permian of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (53.5° N, 118.6° W: paleocoordinates 26.6° N, 30.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mowitch Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Logan and A. McGugan. 1968. Biostratigraphy and faunas of the Permian Ishbel Group, Canadian Rocky Mountains. Journal of Paleontology 42(5):1123-1139 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 112838: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.07.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingularia sp. Biernat and Emig 1993
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
"Spirifer striatoparadoxus" = Fasciculatia striatoparadoxa
"Spirifer striatoparadoxus" = Fasciculatia striatoparadoxa Toula 1873