The Foothills of the Rocky Mountains, south of main line Canadian Pacific Railway, Alberta and British Columbia

The Locality.—Laggan is a telegraph station of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 956 miles west of Winnipeg as the railway runs, and six miles east of the British Columbia eastern boundary. A mile west of Laggan the railway leaves the Bow River Valley, and turns more directly west into the valley of Noore's Creek to cross the central range of the Rocky Mountains, the summit of the pass being six miles from Laggan.

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Ediacaran fossils and dubiofossils, Miette Group of Mount Fitzwilliam area, British Columbia

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences ◽

10.1139/e91-138 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 28 (10) ◽

pp. 1541-1552 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

H. J. Hofmann ◽

E. W. Mountjoy ◽

M. W. Teitz

Keyword(s):

British Columbia ◽

Shallow Water ◽

Rocky Mountains ◽

Carbonate Mounds ◽

Windermere Supergroup

Shallow-water clastic beds flanking stromatolitic carbonate mounds in the upper part of the Vendian Miette Group (Windermere Supergroup) of the Rocky Mountains contain a poorly preserved, soft-bodied fauna that comprises morphologically very variable discoid remains; these include the taxa Beltanella sp., cf. B. grandis, Charniodiscus? sp., Irridinitus? sp., Nimbia occlusa, Protodipleurosoma sp., cf. P. rugulosum, and Zolotytsia? sp. and seven types of dubiofossils.

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New Lower Jurassic ammonite faunas from the Fernie Formation, southern Canadian Rocky Mountains

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences ◽

10.1139/e87-162 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 24 (8) ◽

pp. 1688-1704 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Russell L. Hall

Keyword(s):

British Columbia ◽

North American ◽

Rocky Mountains ◽

Red Deer ◽

First Record ◽

Lower Jurassic ◽

Canadian Rocky Mountains ◽

Poker Chip

New ammonite faunas are described from sections along Bighorn and Scalp creeks in central-western Alberta where Lower Jurassic parts of the Fernie Formation are exposed. The first record of the upper Sinemurian Obtusum Zone from the Fernie is based on the occurrence of Asteroceras cf. stellare and Epophioceras cf. breoni in the basal pebbly coquina on Bighorn Creek. The overlying Red Deer Member has yielded Amaltheus cf. stokesi, representing the upper Pliensbachian Margaritatus Zone; in immediately superjacent strata the first North American examples of ?Amauroceras occur together with Protogrammoceras and ?Aveyroniceras. In the basal parts of the overlying Poker Chip Shale a fauna including Harpoceras cf. falciferum, Harpoceratoides, Polyplectus cf. subplanatus, Hildaites cf. serpentiniformis, and Dactylioceras cf. athleticum is correlated with the lower Toarcian Falciferum Zone.The upper parts of the Poker Chip Shale on Fording River in southeastern British Columbia contain a fauna representing some part of the upper Toarcian, but owing to poor preservation, generic identifications are only tentatively made.

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