Goodlands Member, Site WP9, P5065-1B (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; black, brown coal

• A forested mire with angiosperms grew in the vicinity during deposition. 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.
• 54 cm thick dark to brown to black lignitic coal.

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 232097: 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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Lycopodiopsida
 Selaginellales -
Camarozonosporites sp. Potonié 1956 clubmoss
Bryopsida
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Angiospermae
 Mesangiosperms - Arecaceae
Arecipites sp. Nichols et al. 1973 palm
 Mesangiosperms - Liliaceae
 Santalales - Loranthaceae
 Gunnerales -
 Proteales - Proteaceae
Triporopollenites sp. Pflug and Thomson 1953
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
Momipites tenuipolus Anderson 1960
 Fagales - Betulaceae
Magnoliopsida
  -
"Tricolpites anguloluminosus" = Albertipollenites anguloluminosus Archangelsky 1973
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxodiaceae
 Pinales - Pinaceae
Pteridopsida
  -
Cibotiumspora
  -
Polypodiopsida
  - Polypodiaceae
Laevigatosporites haardti Thomson and Pflug 1959
  - Gleicheniaceae
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Brevicolporites
  -
Fraxinoipollenites
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