Kingsvale Composite (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (50.5° N, 120.7° W: paleocoordinates 46.1° N, 77.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kingsvale Group, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• stratigraphically above the Spence Bridge

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; pebbly, tuffaceous, argillaceous sandstone

• predominately volcanic rocks

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Composite of collections by Duffell and McTaggart (1952) and Rice (1947)

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 24895: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 22.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Phyllites
  -
Polypodiopsida
  - Gleicheniaceae
  -
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Sequoia condita Lesquereux 1875 coast redwood
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxaceae
Magnoliopsida
  -
Angiospermae
 Sapindales - Sapindaceae
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
 Ranunculales - Menispermaceae
Dicotyledoneae
 Myrtales - Myrtaceae
Cinnamomoides
  -
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
"Nilssonia canadensis" = Nilsonia
"Nilssonia canadensis" = Nilsonia cycads