Where: Alberta, Canada (49.6° N, 114.5° W: paleocoordinates 50.0° N, 66.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Mountain Park? Luscar? Formation), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• Blairmore Group is at the base of the volcanic breccias, tuffs, and flows of the Crowsnest volcanics. Just above the Kootenay Formation. This flora is similar to that above in the Crowsnest Formation.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; conglomeratic sandstone and sandy shale
Size class: macrofossils
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: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 24838: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 21.08.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cinnamomoides | |
Magnoliopsida | |
Celastrophyllum acutidens Fontaine 1889 | |
Angiospermae | |
Fontainea grandiflora legume | |
Populites dawsoni n. sp.
Populites dawsoni n. sp. | |
Sapindopsis angusta soapberry
Sapindopsis belviderensis soapberry | |
Ficus ovatifolia Newberry 1896 fig | |
Sequoia condita Lesquereux 1875 coast redwood | |
Zamites tenuinervis Fontaine 1905 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Sphenopteridae | |
Sphenopteris erecta n. sp.
Sphenopteris erecta n. sp. |