Where: Saskatchewan, Canada (49.5° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 55.6° N, 85.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Ravenscrag Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
• The stratigraphic position of the collection is given relative to the No. 1 coal zone, which is approximately at the base of the formation. US30 is located 10 m above the base of the No. 1 coal zone, east of US5 (west face).
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: salvage, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: E. E. McIver and J. F. Basinger. 1993. Flora of the Ravenscrag Formation (Paleocene), Southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada. Palaeontographica Canadiana 10:1-85 [R. Lupia/B. Wilborn/B. Wilborn]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34420: authorized by Rick Lupia, entered by Brooke Wilborn on 31.08.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
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unclassified | |
Plantae "moss", Plantae "Unidentified fern 1", Plantae "Unidentified monocot leaf 1", Plantae "Unidentifed leaf 1", Plantae "roots"
Plantae "Unidentified fern 1" Haeckel 1866
Plantae "Unidentified monocot leaf 1" Haeckel 1866
Plantae "Unidentifed leaf 1" Haeckel 1866
Plantae "roots" Haeckel 1866 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Woodwardia gravida Hickey 1977 | |
Onoclea hesperia Hickey 1977 | |
Magnoliopsida | |
Dicotylophyllum anomalum, "Trapago angulata" = Quereuxia
Dicotylophyllum anomalum Ward 1887 | |
Angiospermae | |
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Paranymphaea crassifolia Newberry 1935 water lily | |
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Pistia corrugata Lesquereux 1874 water cabbage |