Where: Alberta, Canada (52.3° N, 113.8° W: paleocoordinates 58.7° N, 90.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Paskapoo Formation, Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)

• Age dated as Late Tiffanian (Paleocene) on the basis of fossil mammals (Krause, 1978; Fox, 1984, 1990)

Environment/lithology: sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: adpression, original sporopollenin

Collection methods: chemical, mechanical

Primary reference: K. B. Pigg and R. A. Stockey. 1991. Platanaceous plants from the Paleocene of Alberta, Canada. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 70:125-146 [H. Wang/H. Wang/H. Wang]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28522: authorized by Hongshan Wang, entered by Hongshan Wang on 18.02.2003, edited by Monica Arakaki and Rick Lupia

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