Mill Creek Blairmore (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (49.5° N, 114.4° W: paleocoordinates 49.9° N, 66.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Luscar? Mountain Park? Formation), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: conglomeratic sandstone and sandy shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• Specimens collected by G.M. Dawson and T.C. Weston. Described by J.W. Dawson (1886) Additional collections add some species in this list.

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

PaleoDB collection 24839: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 21.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cinnamomoides
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Polypodiopsida
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Magnoliopsida
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 Bennettitales -
Zamites tenuinervis Fontaine 1905
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxaceae
Angiospermae
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
 Apiales - Araliaceae
 Magnoliales - Magnoliaceae
Magnolia ? sp. Linnaeus 1753 magnolia
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
 Fabales - Fabaceae
 Sapindales - Sapindaceae
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae