Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.0° N, 124.0° W: paleocoordinates 54.5° N, 91.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Protection Formation (Nanaimo Group), Coniacian to Coniacian (89.8 - 72.1 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: W. A. Bell. 1957. Flora of the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 293:1-84 [D. Royer/D. Royer/D. Royer]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35218: authorized by Dana Royer, entered by Dana Royer on 18.11.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Metasequoia cuneata dawn redwood | |
Angiospermae | |
Menispermum dauricumoides moonseed | |
Platanus affinis plane tree | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
Angiospermae | |
Populus sp. Linnaeus 1753 poplar | |
Celastrinites wardii bittersweet | |
Zizyphus areolatus buckthorn
Rhamnites eminens buckthorn | |
Pyrus sp. Linnaeus 1753 pear | |
Staphylea usheri bladdernut | |
Sapindus pacificus soapnut | |
? Ampelopsis sp. Michaux 1803 | |
Sparganium sp. Linnaeus 1753 bur-reed | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Cladophlebis columbiana Dawson 1893 | |
Dryopteris kennerlyi Newberry 1863 |