2686 ft, Jackfish River Section, Mackenzie Mountains (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (61.1° N, 124.0° W: paleocoordinates 15.5° N, 34.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Meramecian (343.0 - 335.5 Ma)

• This unit is 70 feet thick.

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•The bed label is given as feet from the base of the section to the base of the unit containing this collection.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, gray limestone and lithified, calcareous shale

• "Limestone, medium to dark gray, finely crystalline, beds less than 1 foot to 5 feet thick, interbedded with calcareous shales 1 to 2 feet thick. Crinoidal fragments common in the limestones and shales."

Primary reference: W. J. H. Patton. 1958. Mississippian succession in South Nahanni River area, Northwest Territories. Jurassic and Carboniferous of Western Canada 309-326 [N. Heim/N. Heim/N. Heim]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 62435: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 19.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Platyceras sp.
Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae
"Triplophyllites sp." = Amplexizaphrentis
"Triplophyllites sp." = Amplexizaphrentis Vaughan 1906 horn coral