Also known as Scollard Locality 1, Sample #24, Collection on the high banks of the Red Deer River, about 5 miles west of Scollard hamlet (Edmonton)
Where: Alberta, Canada (51.9° N, 112.8° W: paleocoordinates 59.6° N, 84.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Scollard Formation (Edmonton Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• The span of the time of the deposition of the Upper Edmonton Member is dated circa 67 to 63 million years.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shale
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: original sporopollenin
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: S. K. Srivastava. 1966. Upper Cretaceous microflora (Maestrichtian) from Scollard, Alberta, Canada. Pollen et Spores 8(3):497-552 [R. Lupia/T. Naeher/T. Naeher]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 32698: authorized by Rick Lupia, entered by Tiffany Naeher on 13.07.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aquilapollenites funkhouseri n. sp., Aquilapollenites macgregori n. sp., Aquilapollenites minutus n. sp., Aquilapollenites psilatus n. sp., Cranwellia edmontonensis n. sp.
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Angiospermae | |
Scollardia nortoni n. sp. mistletoe | |
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Pteridopsida | |
Lygodioisporites verrucosus n. sp.
Lygodioisporites verrucosus n. sp. Deak 1962 |