Protection 3858 (Cretaceous to of Canada)

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 35219: authorized by Dana Royer, entered by Dana Royer on 18.11.2003

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Polypodiopsida
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 Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
Dryopteris kennerlyi Newberry 1863
Angiospermae
 Saxifragales - Saxifragaceae
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanus affinis plane tree
 Rosales - Rosaceae
 Rosales - Rhamnaceae
 Fabales - Fabaceae
 Fagales - Fagaceae
"Dryophyllum elongatum" = Quercus vancouveriana
"Dryophyllum elongatum" = Quercus vancouveriana Trelease 1918 oak
 Celastrales - Celastraceae
 Crossosomatales - Staphyleaceae
Staphylea usheri bladdernut
 Sapindales - Sapindaceae
Dicotyledoneae
 Parietales - Ternstroemiaceae
Angiospermae
 Typhales - Commelinidae
Sparganium sp. Linnaeus 1753 bur-reed
Magnoliopsida
  -
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxaceae
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Metasequoia cuneata dawn redwood
Glyptostrobus comoxensis Chinese swamp cypress
Dombeyopsis
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Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae