3 Carbondale River (Cretaceous to of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.0° N, 114.5° W: paleocoordinates 49.5° N, 66.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Beaver Mines Formation, Early/Lower Albian to Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 105.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; silty shale

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: G. B. Mellon. 1967. Stratigraphy and Petrology of the Lower Cretaceous Blairmore and Mannville Groups, Alberta Foothills and Plains. Research Council of Alberta 21:1-270 [S. Wing/N. Jud]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136785: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Nathan Jud on 04.12.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae
Sphenopteris sp. Sternberg 1825
Ginkgoopsida
 Caytoniales - Caytoniaceae
 Ginkgoales - Ginkgoaceae
Ginkgo pluripartita Heer 1876 ginkgo
 Coniferales -
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Elatocladus sp. Halle 1913 podocarp
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxaceae
Nageiopsis sp. Fontaine 1889 yew