Dunvegan #32 (GSC 4197) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (55.7° N, 121.2° W: paleocoordinates 58.3° N, 74.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dunvegan Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic

• For futher modifications, refer to D.R. Crabtree. 1987. Angiosperms of the Northern Rocky Mountain: Albian to Campanian (Cretaceous) megafossil floras. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 74:707-747

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, original carbon

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: bulk,

• For futher modifications, refer to D.R. Crabtree. 1987. Angiosperms of the Northern Rocky Mountain: Albian to Campanian (Cretaceous) megafossil floras. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 74:707-747

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 35007: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Julia Fosdick on 24.10.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Proteales - Platanaceae
 Magnoliales - Magnoliaceae
Magnolia lacoeana Lesquereux 1891 magnolia
Dicotyledoneae
 Ericales - Ericaceae
? Andromeda spatula n. sp. heather
 Coniferales -
"Sequoiites cf. Geinitzia formosa" = Sequoites
"Sequoiites cf. Geinitzia formosa" = Sequoites Brongniart 1849
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Metasequoia cuneata dawn redwood