Dunvegan #4 (GSC 288) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Dunvegan Formation, British Columbia

Where: British Columbia, Canada (56.2° N, 120.1° W: paleocoordinates 58.5° N, 72.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Dunvegan Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic

• "The strata consist generally of an alternating series of sandstones and shales with all gradations between te two."...contains "clay ironstones concretions, large plant stems and tree trunk imprints and casts, ripple markings, worm borings....carbonaceous fragments, and coal seams...."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, original carbon

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: bulk,

• For further modifications, refer to D.R. Crabtree. 1987. Angiosperms of the Northern Rocky Mountains: Albian to Campanian (Cretaceous) megafossil floras. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 74:707-747

Primary reference: W. A. Bell. 1962. Upper Cretaceous floras of the Dunvegan, Bad Heart, and Milk River Formations of Western Canada. Geological Survey of Canada 94:1-76 [B. Tiffney/J. Fosdick/J. Fosdick]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31887: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Julia Fosdick on 27.05.2003

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Taxonomic list

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Angiospermae
 Rosales -
Hymenaea fayettensis
 Apiales - Araliaceae
Hedera cf. cretacea
Hedera cf. cretacea Lesquereux 1891 ivy