Where: Alberta, Canada (55.7° N, 120.1° W: paleocoordinates 58.0° N, 73.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bad Heart Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
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 35072: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Julia Fosdick on 29.10.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Polypodiopsida | |
Equisetopsida | |
Angiospermae | |
Vitis sp. Linnaeus 1753 grapevine | |
Zizyphus mcgregori n. sp.
Zizyphus mcgregori n. sp. buckthorn | |
Trochodendroides arctica Berry 1926 | |
"Sequoiites cf. Geinitzia formosa" = Sequoites
"Sequoiites cf. Geinitzia formosa" = Sequoites Brongniart 1849 |