Western Canada Sedimentary Basin & Rocky Mountains, British Columbia and Alberta Purcell Mountains, British Columbia
Type section
Named for
Beaverfoot Range
Named by
L.D. Burling
Year defined
1922[2]
Beaverfoot Formation (Canada)
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Beaverfoot Formation (Alberta)
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The Beaverfoot Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Late Ordovician (Ashgill age) to Early Silurian (Llandovery) age.[3] It is present on the western edge of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia and Alberta, and the Purcell Mountains of British Columbia. It consists of carbonate rocks, and was named for the Beaverfoot Range at Pedley Pass southeast of Golden, British Columbia by L.D. Burling in 1922.[1][2]
The formation is fossiliferous and is known for its brachiopod faunas. It also contains rugose corals and conodonts.[3]
^ abGlass, D.J. (editor) 1997. Lexicon of Canadian Stratigraphy, vol. 4, Western Canada including eastern British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba, p. 118. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Calgary, 1423 p. on CD-ROM. ISBN 0-920230-23-7.
^ abBurling, L.D. 1922. A Cambro-Ordovician section near Mount Robson, British Columbia. Geological Magazine, vo. 49, p. 452-461.
^ abJin, J., Caldwell, W.G.E. and Norford, B.S. 1989. Rhynchonellid brachiopods from the Upper Ordovician Lower Silurian Beaverfoot and Nonda formations of the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 396, p. 21-59.
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