Upper Triassic reef fauna from the Quesnel terrane, Central British Columbia, Canada

From: Journal of Paleontology | Date: September 1, 1999| Author: Stanley, George D Jr; Senowbari-Daryan, Baba | Copyright information

ABSTRACT-Massive Upper Triassic (Norian) reef limestone at Eaglenest Mountain, Takla Group, British Columbia, contains a wide variety of shallow-water fossils in two different carbonate units. A sponge-coral facies contains the sponges Fanthatamia astoma (Seilacher, 1962), Fanthalamia multicanalis new species, Cinnabaria expansa (Seilacher, 1962), and Cinnabaria? sp. Cinnabaria expansa is a widely distributed North American terrane species which, along with F. astoma, was previously known fro...

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