Where: Alberta, Canada (54.3° N, 118.8° W: paleocoordinates 62.3° N, 92.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Paskapoo Formation, Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 61.7 Ma)
• Lower Volcanic Tuff
•Previously assigned Wapiti Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: pond; tuffaceous, white siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: coalified, original carbon
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: D. C. Christophel. 1976. Fossil floras of the Smoky Tower locality, Alberta, Canada. Palaeontographica Abteilung B 157(1-4):1-43 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 22833: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Heather Lindon on 27.06.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Polypodiopsida | |
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Angiospermae | |
Cercidiphyllum sp. Siebold and Zuccarini 1846 katsura | |
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Ulmaceae indet. Brisseau-Mirbel 1815 elm
Zelkova sp. Spach 1841 zelkova | |
Pinopsida | |
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Ginkgoopsida | |
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