Nikanassin Composite (Cretaceous to of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (53.0° N, 117.3° W: paleocoordinates 52.4° N, 61.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Nikanassin Formation, Neocomian to Neocomian (145.0 - 125.0 Ma)

• correlative with the Kootenay Formation

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone and shale

Size class: macrofossils

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

Primary reference: W. A. Bell. 1956. Lower Cretaceous Floras of Western Canada. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 285 (2528)1-153 [A. Rees/D. Sunderlin/D. Sunderlin]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24847: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 21.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gnetopsida
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 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Podozamites lanceolatus Lindley and Hutton 1840 podocarp
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
 Cyatheales - Polypodiidae
Coniopteris brevifolia scaly tree fern
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
"Nilssonia nigracollensis" = Nilsonia
"Nilssonia nigracollensis" = Nilsonia cycads
Ginkgoopsida
 Ginkgoales - Ginkgoaceae
Ginkgo nana Dawson 1885 ginkgo
Ginkgo pluripartita Heer 1876 ginkgo
 Czekanowskiales -