ammonites
Azure Lake Section, Marble Peak, Vancouver Island (Permian of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.7° N, 125.7° W: paleocoordinates 1.1° N, 59.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Buttle Lake Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• Medium to coarse-grained, crinoidal, sparsely fossiliferous, light-colored limestone. Nodules and irregular thin bands of light and dark chert and silicified limestone occur in zones between massive limestone beds. At least one thick bed of dark, richly fossiliferous, dolomitic limestone is present.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R.W. Yole. 1963. An Early Permian fauna from Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology 11:138-149 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 82123: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.07.2008

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