Where: Alberta, Canada (49.5° N, 112.2° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 57.2° N, 67.3° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Second White Specks Formation (Colorado Group), Early/Lower Turonian to Early/Lower Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• Hedbergella loetterlei Zone (Caldwell et al., 1978); meters indicate depth at which sample was taken

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, calcareous siltstone

Size class: microfossils

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: core, chemical, smear slide,

• nannofossils were analyzed using the techniques from Edwards (1963), Stover (1966), Gartner (1968) and Smith (1981)

Primary reference: J. D. Bloch, C. J. Schröder-Adams, D.A. Leckie, J. Craig, and D.J. McIntyre. 1999. Sedimentology, micropaleontology, geochemistry and hydrocarbon potential of shale from the cretaceous Lower Colorado Group in Western Canada. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 531:1-185 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 71353: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 24.04.2007

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