Where: Alberta, Canada (49.5° N, 114.4° W: paleocoordinates 49.9° N, 66.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Luscar? Mountain Park? Formation), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: conglomeratic sandstone and sandy shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• Specimens collected by G.M. Dawson and T.C. Weston. Described by J.W. Dawson (1886) Additional collections add some species in this list.
Primary reference: W. A. Bell. 1956. Lower Cretaceous Floras of Western Canada. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 285 (2528)1-153 [A. Rees/D. Sunderlin/D. Sunderlin]more details
PaleoDB collection 24839: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 21.08.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Equisetopsida | |
Brachyphyllum crassicaule Fontaine | |
Magnoliopsida | |
Celastrophyllum acutidens Fontaine 1889 | |
Pinopsida | |
? Cyparissidium ? gracile Heer 1868 yew | |
Williamsonia ? recentior Dawson 1885
Zamites tenuinervis Fontaine 1905 | |
Angiospermae | |
Magnolia ? sp. Linnaeus 1753 magnolia | |
Fontainea grandiflora legume | |
Populites dawsoni n. sp.
Populites dawsoni n. sp. | |
Sapindopsis angusta soapberry | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Cinnamomoides | |