Also known as Calgary
Where: Alberta, Canada (51.3° N, 115.0° W: paleocoordinates 15.7° S, 44.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Yahatinda Formation, Early/Lower Frasnian (383.7 - 382.4 Ma)
• Scheckler (1978, p. 3138): "formation is overlain by the Cairn Formation of lower Frasnian age."
Environment/lithology:
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression, permineralized, original carbon, replaced with pyrite, replaced with hematite, replaced with limonite
Collection methods: quarrying, chemical, mechanical,
Primary reference: S. E. Scheckler. 1978. Ontogeny of Progymnosperms. II. Shoots of Upper Devonian Archaeopteridales. Canadian Journal of Botany 56(24):3136-3170 [W. Stein/J. Kao/J. Kao]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 21241: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Jenny Kao on 21.06.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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