Where: British Columbia, Canada (56.4° N, 125.8° W: paleocoordinates 53.2° N, 71.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Uslika Formation, Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)
• 5500 feet thick
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: conglomerate and black, gray, argillaceous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),
• Formation description by E.F. Roots (1948)
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 24860: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 21.08.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Ginkgoopsida | |
Sagenopteris sp. Presl 1838 | |
Cycadopsida | |
"Nilssonia ? canadensis" = Nilsonia
"Nilssonia ? canadensis" = Nilsonia cycads | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Coniopteris brevifolia scaly tree fern | |
Cladophlebis parva Fontaine 1889 | |
Gleichenites porsildi Seward 1926 | |
Sphenopteridae | |
Sphenopteris latiloba Fontaine 1889 |