Middle Belcourt Ridge (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (54.4° N, 120.4° W: paleocoordinates 55.9° N, 63.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Commotion Formation, Early/Lower Cretaceous (145.0 - 100.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

• silty shale, sandstone, and with coal seams

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, original carbon

Collection methods: For further modifications, see Crabtree, D.R. 1987. Angiosperms of the Northern Rocky Mountains: Albian to Campanian (Cretaceous) Megafossil floras. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 74: 707-747.

Primary reference: G.B. Mellon, J.H. Hall, and C.R. Stelck. 1963. Lower Cretaceous Section, Belcourt Ridge, Northeastern British Columbia. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology 11:64-72 [B. Tiffney/J. Fosdick/J. Fosdick]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31338: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Julia Fosdick on 07.05.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Ginkgoopsida
 Caytoniales - Caytoniaceae
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
"Nilssonia canadensis" = Nilsonia, "Nilssonia sp." = Nilsonia
"Nilssonia canadensis" = Nilsonia cycads
"Nilssonia sp." = Nilsonia Brongniart 1825 cycads
Gnetopsida
  -
"Pityophyllum nordenskjoldii" = Pityophyllum nordenskioeldi
"Pityophyllum nordenskjoldii" = Pityophyllum nordenskioeldi Heer 1899
 Bennettitales -
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxaceae
Elatides curvifolia Dunker 1846 yew