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. US7 is located 31 m above No. 1 coal zone, west of US3.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone
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 34427: authorized by Rick Lupia, entered by Brooke Wilborn on 31.08.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Plantae "Unidentified fern 2" Haeckel 1866
Plantae Unidentified monocot leaf 3 Haeckel 1866 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Dennstaedtia americana Knowlton 1910
Onoclea hesperia Hickey 1977 | |
Osmunda macrophylla Penhallow 1908 |