Smithers Composite (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (54.7° N, 127.3° W: paleocoordinates 52.2° N, 74.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shale and coal

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),

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

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24854: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 21.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
  -
Cladophlebis parva Fontaine 1889
  - Gleicheniaceae
 Cyatheales - Polypodiidae
Coniopteris brevifolia scaly tree fern
Ginkgoopsida
 Czekanowskiales -
Gnetopsida
  -
"Pityophyllum cf. nordenskioldi" = Pityophyllum nordenskioeldi
"Pityophyllum cf. nordenskioldi" = Pityophyllum nordenskioeldi Heer 1899
 Bennettitales -
 Coniferales -
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxaceae
Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae