CANADA
DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND RESOURCES

MINES AND GEOLOGY BRANCH
BUREAU OF GEOLOGY AND TOPOGRAPHY

HALFWAY, SIKANNI CHIEF
FAUNAS PEACE RIVER FOOTHILLS, B. C. : , TETSA AND LIARD VALLEYS, B.C.{WEST/| TETSA AND LIAR . B.C.
ce . 3 AND PROPHET VALLEYS, B.C. { rniiaore Nery te ast)

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY >

| RHAETIAN |

M. subcircularis
Himavatites
C. cf. bicrenatus

NORIAN

1. Rapids of the Drowned
Pardonet beds

2. Hell Gate
3. Tetsa Valley “Styrites”’
4. Kluachesi Lake | Tropites ts ti
5. Prophet River Localities : SHinneeres a
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= i} rt)
6 " " " z = 3
7 " " " i Lima? poyana < 5
ik { a Grey beds a Grey beds

8... Mt. Winthrow O Mahaffy Cliffs fauna
9. Mt. Hage and Hage Creek eee oD |

. Mt. Wright INGHR Gree as bi ease ea
ie At = SUIS Dark siltstones Dark siltstones

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11. Hackney Hills
12, Aylard Summit

LADINIAN

Flagstones

13. East Spur, Brown Hill

MIDDLE

14, East Glacier Spur

15. Mahaffy Creek

16. Beattie Hill

17. Hill east of Aylard Creek

18. Three miles east of Beattie Farm

_ Beyrichites-

ANISIAN

Gymnotoceras

Wasatchites

Claraia?

faXthe Peace e/HUDSON HOPE 56°

a Oo
FINLAY FORKS 122 121 re)

126° 125° 124

FIGURE 1A: INDEX MAP OF NORTHEASTERN BRITISH COLUMBIA
SHOWING GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES AND TRIASSIC FOSSIL LOCALITIES REFERRED TO IN THIS REPORT

NORTHEASTERN BRITISH COLUMBIA

Eopsiloceratan
- Sandstones

with plants

Rhaetitan

Pinacoceratan

Haloritan

NORIAN

Pardonet beds

Tropitan

Carnitan

KARNIAN
SCHOOLER CREEK

TRIASSIC

Grey beds |

Trachyceratan
y Sandstone, dark shale, Nathorstites beds on
Dark siltstones with Nathorstites Reschetnikow River

P. archelaus
Flagstones ?

LADINIAN
CERATITAN

P. reitzi
Daonella beds

Toad (upper part) Gymnotoceras beds

_

Paraceratitan

“ARCTIC REGIONS

ANISIAN

Scale of Miles Hicomeditan

200 0O 200 400 600
Je

@ tocaLities. Nathorstites FAUNA _ FIGURE 1D. TABLE SHOWING RELATIVE POSITION Nathorstites -BEARING STRATA IN NORTHEASTERN BRITISH COLUMBIA. SPITZBERGEN.
BEAR ISLAND, AND KOTELNY ISLAND ta

FIGURE 1C. SHOWS BOREAL DISTRIBUTION OF Nathorstites FAUNA

1, Kotelny Island, 2. Spitsbergen, 3. Bear Island,
4, Liard-River, 5. Peace River Foothills

FIGURE 1 TO ACCOMPANY PAPER 47-24 BY F.H.Mf LEARN