Protection 1580 (Cretaceous to of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.0° N, 124.0° W: paleocoordinates 54.5° N, 91.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Protection Formation (Nanaimo Group), Coniacian to Coniacian (89.8 - 72.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. A. Bell. 1957. Flora of the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 293:1-84 [D. Royer/D. Royer/D. Royer]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35216: authorized by Dana Royer, entered by Dana Royer on 18.11.2003

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Metasequoia cuneata dawn redwood
Polypodiopsida
  - Polypodiaceae