Also known as Scollard Locality 2, Sample #5, 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: mire or swamp; coal
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: coalified, 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 32895: authorized by Rick Lupia, entered by Tiffany Naeher on 17.07.2003
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