Milk River #6 (GSC 1282) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (49.2° N, 111.9° W: paleocoordinates 50.1° N, 69.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

• In outcrop the Milk River Formation comprises three members: the Telegraph Creek, Virgelle, and Deadhorse Coulee (lower Eagle Formation equivalent). These members form a regressive succession from offshore marine to non marine coastal plain deposits.

•http://www.searchanddiscovery.net/documents/2006/06070rm_section%20_abs/abstracts/oconnell02.htm

• "The strata consist generally of an alternating series of sandstones and shales with all gradations between te two."...contains "clay ironstones 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 further modifications, refer to D.R. Crabtree. 1987. Angiosperms of the Northern Rocky Mountains: 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 35090: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Julia Fosdick on 03.11.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Elatocladus albertaensis
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxaceae
Geinitzia formosa
Geinitzia formosa Heer 1871 yew
Angiospermae
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Laurophyllum sp.
Laurophyllum sp. Göppert 1853 laurel