Also known as Commotion Creek

Where: British Columbia, Canada (55.5° N, 122.0° W: paleocoordinates 57.1° N, 73.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Commotion Formation, Late/Upper Albian to Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 93.9 Ma)

• Commotion is stratigraphically over the Moosebar Formation of shale and sandstone and it is under the Hasler Formation of predominant shale. Plant fossils are from the top 180 feet of the the 1300-1500 foot thick Commotion Formation.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; carbonaceous sandstone and carbonaceous shale

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

• Collections by Wickenden and Shaw (1943)

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 24934: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 23.08.2002

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