Aiken Lake (Cretaceous of Canada)

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

 Coniferales -
Ginkgoopsida
 Caytoniales - Caytoniaceae
Sagenopteris sp. Presl 1838
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
"Nilssonia ? canadensis" = Nilsonia
"Nilssonia ? canadensis" = Nilsonia cycads
Polypodiopsida
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
 Cyatheales - Polypodiidae
Coniopteris brevifolia scaly tree fern
  -
  - Gleicheniaceae
Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae
Sphenopteris latiloba Fontaine 1889