Also known as Dunvegan Formation
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)
Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic
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Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, original carbon
Reposited in the GSC
Collection methods: bulk,
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 32031: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Julia Fosdick on 01.06.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Polypodiopsida | |
Cladophlebis cf. virginiensis Fontaine 1889 | |
Saccoloma sp. Kaulfuss 1820 | |
Metasequoia cuneata dawn redwood | |
Pinopsida | |
Widdringtonites reichii Ettingshausen 1867 | |
Angiospermae | |
Platanus newberryana Lesquereux 1868 plane tree | |
Magnolia rhamnoides n. sp. magnolia
Liriodendron giganteum Lesquereux 1868 magnolia | |
Ficus daphnogenoides Heer 1866 fig | |
Leguminosites spatulatus n. sp. legume
? Bauhinia ? cretacea? Linnaeus 1753 legume | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
? Andromeda spatula n. sp.
? Andromeda spatula n. sp. heather | |
Equisetopsida | |