Apple Bay (Cretaceous to of Canada)

Also known as shore of Apple Bay

Where: British Columbia, Canada (50.6° N, 127.7° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 53.8° N, 64.2° W (Wright 2013)

When: Late/Upper Valanginian to Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 130.0 Ma)

• Longarm Formation equivalent. Valanginian–Hautervian boundary, Early Cretaceous

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray, sandy, calcareous wackestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: concretion, permineralized

Collection methods: surface (float), peel or thin section,

• University of Alberta Paleobotanical Collection

Primary reference: N. A. Jud, G. W. Rothwell, and R. A. Stockey. 2008. Todea from the Lower Cretaceous of Western North America: implications for the phylogeny, systematics, and evolution of modern Osmundaceae. American Journal of Botany 95(3):330-339 [S. Wing/N. Jud]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99179: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Nathan Jud on 01.11.2010, edited by Morgan Ellingsworth

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Pteridopsida
 Filicales -
Polypodiopsida
  - Osmundaceae
 Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
 Cyatheales - Polypodiidae
Cyathea cranhamii6 scaly tree fern
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Gymnospermopsida
 Corystospermales -
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Pinaceae