Smoky Tower, siltstone B (Paleocene of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (54.3° N, 118.8° W: paleocoordinates 62.3° N, 92.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Paskapoo Formation, Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 61.7 Ma)

• Previously assigned Wapiti Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; gray siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, permineralized, original carbon

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: D. C. Christophel. 1976. Fossil floras of the Smoky Tower locality, Alberta, Canada. Palaeontographica Abteilung B 157(1-4):1-43 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10670: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Jonathan Allen on 10.06.2001, edited by Hallie Sims

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Equisetum sp. Linnaeus 1753 horsetail
"fragments of Equisetum"
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Glyptostrobus nordenskioeldii Chinese swamp cypress