GSC 290, Coal Brook, Peace River (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (55.7° N, 121.2° W: paleocoordinates 58.3° N, 74.2° 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; siliciclastic sediments

• "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 31888: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Julia Fosdick on 27.05.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Pseudoprotophyllum
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Protophyllum multinerve
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Protophyllum ? multinerve Lesquereux 1871
Angiospermae
 Magnoliales - Magnoliaceae
Magnolia magnifica Dawson 1882 magnolia
 Ranunculales - Menispermaceae
 Laurales - Lauraceae