Where: Saskatchewan, Canada (49.5° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 55.6° N, 85.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Ravenscrag Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
• The stratigraphic position of the collection is given relative to the No. 1 coal zone, which is approximately at the base of the formation. US58 is located 10 m above the No. 1 coal zone, west of US5 (west face).
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: salvage, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: E. E. McIver and J. F. Basinger. 1993. Flora of the Ravenscrag Formation (Paleocene), Southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada. Palaeontographica Canadiana 10:1-85 [R. Lupia/B. Wilborn/B. Wilborn]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34421: authorized by Rick Lupia, entered by Brooke Wilborn on 31.08.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
Paranymphaea crassifolia Newberry 1935 water lily | |
Pistia corrugata Lesquereux 1874 water cabbage | |
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cf. Cercidiphyllum sp. Siebold and Zuccarini 1846 katsura | |
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cf. Myristica catahoulensis Berry 1924 magnoliids | |
Rhamnites cleburnii n. gen.
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Magnoliopsida | |
"Trapago angulata" = Quereuxia, Dicotylophyllum anomalum
Dicotylophyllum anomalum Ward 1887 |