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
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 232094: authorized by Phillip Jardine, entered by Hannah Morck on 20.10.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Seductisporites barbatus, Stereigranisporis regius, Sequoiapollenites sp., "Unidentified inaperturate pollen" spp., Betulaceoipollenites infrequens, Dyadonapites reticulatus, Kurtzipites trispissatus, Simplicepollis rallus, Ulmipollenites krempii, "Unidentified tricolpate" spp., "Unidentified tricolporate" spp., "Unidentified tetraporate" spp.
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Angiospermae | |
Monosulcites sp. Cookson and Couper 1953 | |
Tricolpites sp. Couper 1953 | |
Syncolporites minimus mistletoe | |
Pandaniidites typicus Sweet 1986 | |
Arecipites sp. Nichols et al. 1973 palm | |
Alnipollenites trina birch
Alnipollenites verus Potonie 1931 birch | |
Momipites tenuipolus Anderson 1960 | |
Pinopsida | |
Pinuspollenites sp. Raatz 1938 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Baculatisporites comaumensis Potonie 1953 | |
Laevigatosporites ovatus Wilson and Webster 1946
Laevigatosporites haardti Thomson and Pflug 1959 | |
Gleicheniidites senonicus Ross 1949 | |
Pteridopsida | |
Bryopsida | |
Fraxinoipollenites | |