Section 8, Peel River drainage (UA) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Yukon, Canada (65.9° N, 135.1° W: paleocoordinates 76.5° N, 101.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bonnet Plume Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• low in section at locality, but precise layer not located

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; lithology not reported

• "fluvial, floodplain, paludal"

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collected by G. Rouse in 1960s, 2009

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: G. E. Rouse and S. K. Srivastava. 1972. Palynological zonation of Cretaceous and Early Tertiary rocks of the Bonnet Plume Formation, northeastern Yukon, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 9(9):1163-1179 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 52892: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 25.08.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
 Anthophyta -
Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet.2 Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
UA 19363