Dunvegan #24 (GSC 4194) (Cretaceous of Canada)

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

• "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...."

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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

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Polypodiopsida
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Cladophlebis cf. virginiensis
 Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
Saccoloma sp.
Saccoloma sp. Kaulfuss 1820
Angiospermae
 Apiales - Araliaceae
Araliaephyllum rotundiloba
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanus newberryana
Platanus newberryana Lesquereux 1868 plane tree
 Magnoliales - Magnoliaceae
Liriodendron giganteum, Magnolia rhamnoides n. sp.
Liriodendron giganteum Lesquereux 1868 magnolia
Magnolia rhamnoides n. sp. magnolia
 Fabales - Fabaceae
Leguminosites spatulatus n. sp., ? Bauhinia ? cretacea?
? Bauhinia ? cretacea? Linnaeus 1753 legume
 Rosids - Moraceae
Ficus daphnogenoides
Ficus daphnogenoides Heer 1866 fig
Dicotyledoneae
 Ericales - Ericaceae
? Andromeda spatula n. sp.
? Andromeda spatula n. sp. heather
Pinopsida
 Pinales -
Widdringtonites reichii
Widdringtonites reichii Ettingshausen 1867
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Metasequoia cuneata
Metasequoia cuneata dawn redwood
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Dammarites robinsi