5 Oldman River (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: British Columbia (49.2° N, 115.0° W: paleocoordinates 49.7° N, 66.4° 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

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 136794: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Nathan Jud on 04.12.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
  -
Cladophlebis sp. Brongniart 1849
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
"Nilssonia nigracollensis" = Nilsonia, "Nilssonia canadensis" = Nilsonia
"Nilssonia nigracollensis" = Nilsonia cycads
"Nilssonia canadensis" = Nilsonia cycads
 Coniferales -
Athrotaxites sp. Unger 1849
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Podozamites lanceolatus Lindley and Hutton 1840 podocarp
 Bennettitales -
Ptilophyllum sp. Morris 1840