Beaverfoot Fm, British Columbia, Ashgill - Patzkowsky (Ordovician of Canada)
Where: Canada (50.3° N, 119.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.1° N, 77.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Beaverfoot Formation, Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified carbonate
• 600 m of carbonate rocks. Deposited in "shallow tropical waters".
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. Jin, W.G.E. Caldwell, and B.S. Norford. 1989. Rhynchonellid Brachiopods from the Upper Ordovician - Lower Silurian Beaverfoot and Nonda Formations of the Rocky Mountains, British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 396:21-42 [M. Patzkowsky/Z. Krug] more details
PaleoDB collection 12703: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 26.11.2001