Dunvegan #26 (GSC 3351) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Dunvegan Formation, British Columbia

Where: British Columbia, Canada (56.0° N, 120.0° W: paleocoordinates 58.3° N, 72.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

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...."

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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 32096: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Julia Fosdick on 04.06.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae
Sphenopteris stricta
Angiospermae
 Rosids - Moraceae
Ficus daphnogenoides
Ficus daphnogenoides Heer 1866 fig
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Metasequoia cuneata
Metasequoia cuneata dawn redwood