Rocky Creek plants (Ft Union) (Paleocene of Canada)

Where: Saskatchewan, Canada (49.0° N, 106.6° W: paleocoordinates 55.1° N, 82.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fort Union Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. M. Sternberg in 1921

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: C. M. Sternberg. 1924. Notes on the Lance Formation of southern Sasakatchewan. Canadian Field-Naturalist 38(4):66-70 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 45729: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.11.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Angiospermae
 Poales - Poaceae
Phragmites sp. Adanson 1763 common reed
 Apiales - Araliaceae
Aralia coloradensis Knowlton 1917 spikenard
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanus nobilis Newberry 1868 plane tree
Platanus aceroides Göppert 1852 plane tree
actually "Platanus aceroides latifolia"
 Rosales - Rhamnaceae
Paliurus pulcherrium buckthorn
"a Ceanothus and not a Paliurus"
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
Populus speciosa Ward 1885 poplar