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An early Capitanian (Middle Permian) foraminiferal connection between southern British Columbia, Canada and South Primorye, Russian Far East

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New foraminiferal assemblages consisting of fusulinids and smaller foraminifers have been described from a basalt/carbonate rock block (locality 51F7) and small outcrop of thin-bedded limestone (locality 51F6) located near the entrance to Marble Canyon west–southwest of the town of Cache Creek in southern British Columbia, Canada. The locality 51F7 contains diverse fusulinid and smaller foraminiferal faunas, whereas the locality 51F6 contains only fusulinids. The studied fusulinid assemblage is totally devoid of neoschwagerinids or verbeekinids, and contains genera such as Sichotenella and Wutuella that have never been reported from the Western Hemisphere. The studied foraminiferal fauna contains a group of taxa very similar to several species described from the Primorye area of the Russian Far East and Japan. Some fusulinids present, Reichelina and Codonofusiella, and smaller foraminifers are also similar to Capitanian age species of the Delaware Basin area of West Texas. The age of the British Columbia fauna appears to be Middle Permian, Guadalupian, earliest Capitanian, but a latest Wordian age cannot be excluded. Four new species are described: Reichelina cachecreekensis sp. nov., Sichotenella danneri sp. nov., Codonofusiella marblensis sp. nov., and Parafusulina turquoisensis sp. nov.

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modified from Danner et al. (1999) to show their extensions to the north and south, and their offsets by the Vedder Discontinuity and the Trans-Idaho Discontinuity. Approximate location of Marble Canyon is noted

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modified from Kotlyar 2015). Terranes: (LG) Laoelin–Grodekovo, (VZ) Voznesensk, (SR) Sergeevka, (NKH) Nakhimovka, (SP) Spassk–Laoelin–Grodekovo. Sections: (1) Barabashevka River Basin, (2) Nesterovka; Voznessensk Terrane, Murav’ev zone: (3) Murav’ev-Amurskii Peninsula, Russkii Island; (4) Artemovka River Basin, Dunai zone; (5) Dunai Peninsula, Putyatin Island; Sergeevka Terrane, Partizansk zone: (6) Sen’kina Shapka, (7) Nakhodka, Trudnyi Peninsula; Sergeevka zone: (8) Mount Orel, Vodopadnaya River Basin; Nakhimovka Terrane, Malinovka zone: (9) Ugodinza; (b) All figured specimens are from the Sen’kina Shapka section except for e from the Lipovaya Pad’ section (modified after Sosnina 1965, 1968, 1981). a Kahlerina nautiloidea Sosnina, 1968: holotype, axial section; b Sichotenella discoidea Sosnina, 1968: holotype, axial section; c Codonofusiella lipovensis Sosnina, 1968: holotype, axial section; d Rauserella breviscula Sosnina, 1968: holotype, axial section; e Rauserella ussuriensis Sosnina, 1968: holotype, axial section; f Wutuella lancetiformis (Sosnina, 1981): holotype, axial section; g Wutuella concinna (Sosnina, 1981): holotype, axial section; h Parafusulina stricta Sosnina, 1965: holotype, axial section; i Parafusulina (?) primoriensis Sosnina, 1965: holotype, axial section. Pictures not to scale

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modified from Davydov and Schmitz (2019). 1. Akiyoshi atoll; 2. West Texas Permian Basin; 3. Transcaucasia; 4. Pamirs; 5. South China (Greater South China Block); 6. Primorye; 7. Cache Creek. Kani et al. (2018) suggest that the position of the Sen’kina Shapka and Iwaizaki areas would be located on the uppermost part of the Greater South China Block

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Authors are very thankful to Dr. Wilbert (Ted) Danner who passed away many years ago and with whom M. Nestell did geological field work in southern British Columbia in the 1970s. The authors thank Ryan Collins for aid in the preparation of some figures, and Gregory P. Wahlman and an anonymous reviewer for their constructive comments.

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Nestell, M.K., Nestell, G.P. An early Capitanian (Middle Permian) foraminiferal connection between southern British Columbia, Canada and South Primorye, Russian Far East. PalZ 96, 591–612 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-021-00547-w

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