Goodlands Member, Site WP9, P5065-5B (Paleocene of Canada)

Where: Manitoba, Canada (49.1° N, 100.6° W: paleocoordinates 54.0° N, 74.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Goodlands Member (Turtel Mountain Formation), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• Sample height in section estimated from Figure 4.

•Sediments from the Goodlands Member were assigned to the early Palaeocene, and two biozones - lower Wodehouseia fimbriata and upper Tricolporopollenites kruschii - were identified (Braman and Sweet, 1999).

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; gray, carbonaceous claystone

• A forested mire with angiosperms grew in the vicinity during deposition. Sample contains palynoflora representative of open-canopy communities with abundant ferns. Warm-adapted plants flourished in a near-shore transient terrestrial swamp environment dominated by angiosperms and conifers, that was analogous to modern swamps of the southern United States. They were deposited in coastal environments as the Western Interior seaway retreated.
• Approximately 40 cm thick and consists of dark grey carbonaceous clay.

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collected in 2007; reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, hydroflouric,

• Samples were processed at the palynology lab of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC), Calgary, Alberta. Briefly, material was macerated and subjected to acid digestion to remove organic matter, carbonates and silicates. Resulting slurries were stained using Safranin ‘O’ and mounted with liquid bioplastic.

•They are stored in collections at GSC, Calgary.

Primary reference: N. U. Patel, D. R. Greenwood, C. L. Greenwood, J. M. Galloway, and M. Desautels. 2022. A reconstruction of the early Palaeocene palaeovegetation of Turtle Mountain, south-western Manitoba, Canada. Palynology 46(4):1-16 [P. Jardine/H. Morck]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 232093: authorized by Phillip Jardine, entered by Hannah Morck on 20.10.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Non-pollen palynomorphs were not identified or counted.
unclassified
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Pinopsida
 Pinales - Pinaceae
 Pinales - Taxodiaceae
Magnoliopsida
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Angiospermae
 Mesangiosperms - Araceae
 Mesangiosperms - Arecaceae
Arecipites sp. Nichols et al. 1973 palm
 Santalales - Loranthaceae
 Gunnerales -
Tricolpites sp. Couper 1953
 Proteales - Proteaceae
Dicotyledoneae
 Myrtales -
Angiospermae
 Fagales - Betulaceae
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
  -
Monosulcites sp. Cookson and Couper 1953
Polypodiopsida
  - Polypodiaceae
Laevigatosporites haardti Thomson and Pflug 1959
Laevigatosporites ovatus Wilson and Webster 1946
  - Osmundaceae
  - Gleicheniaceae
Pteridopsida
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Bryopsida
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Cycadopites
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Cycadopites sp. Wodehouse 1933