Smoky Tower, tuff layer (Paleocene of Canada)

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

• Volcaniclastic tuff

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
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Equisetum arcticum Heer 1866 horsetail
Heer
Angiospermae
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
Cercidiphyllum sp. Siebold and Zuccarini 1846 katsura
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanus raynoldsii Newberry 1868 plane tree
Newberry
 Rosales - Ulmaceae
Ulmaceae indet. Brisseau-Mirbel 1815 elm
Zelkova sp. Spach 1841 zelkova
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Sciadopityaceae
Sciadopitophyllum canadense Christophel 1973
Christophel
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood
(Newberry) Chaney
Glyptostrobus nordenskioeldii Chinese swamp cypress
(Heer) Brown
Ginkgoopsida
 Ginkgoales - Ginkgoaceae
Ginkgo adiantoides Unger 1845 ginkgo
(Unger) Heer