Dunvegan #31 (GSC 4195) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (55.7° N, 121.2° W: paleocoordinates 58.3° N, 74.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dunvegan Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; siliciclastic sediments

• "The strata consist generally of alternating series of sandstones and shales with all gradients between the two....contains clay ironstone concretions, large plant stems and tree trunk imprints and casts, ripple markings, worm borings... carbonaceous fragments and coal seams..."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, original carbon

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: bulk,

• For futher modifications, refer to D.R. Crabtree. 1987. Angiosperms of the Northern Rocky Mountain: Albian to Campanian (Cretaceous) megafossil floras. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 74:707-747

Primary reference: W. A. Bell. 1962. Upper Cretaceous floras of the Dunvegan, Bad Heart, and Milk River Formations of Western Canada. Geological Survey of Canada 94:1-76 [B. Tiffney/J. Fosdick/J. Fosdick]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35006: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Julia Fosdick on 24.10.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Fabales - Fabaceae
 Fagales - Nothofagaceae
 Rosids - Moraceae
Ficus daphnogenoides Heer 1866 fig
 Magnoliales - Magnoliaceae
Liriodendron giganteum Lesquereux 1868 magnolia
Magnolia hollicki Berry 1909 magnolia
Magnolia lacoeana Lesquereux 1891 magnolia
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanus newberryana Lesquereux 1868 plane tree
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
Polypodiopsida
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