Oldman River (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (49.5° N, 114.5° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 57.2° N, 68.0° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• 400 ft below the Crowsnest volcanic formation

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: conglomeratic sandstone and sandy shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• G.M. Dawson collection and J.W. Dawson identifications (1886; pp. 12-14)

Primary reference: W. A. Bell. 1956. Lower Cretaceous Floras of Western Canada. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 285 (2528)1-153 [A. Rees/D. Sunderlin/D. Sunderlin]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24840: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 21.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Fagales - Betulaceae
? Alnites sp. Hisinger 1837 birch
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
 Apiales - Araliaceae
? Aralia sp. Linnaeus 1753 spikenard
Magnoliopsida
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Cinnamomoides
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