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 | |
? Alnites sp. Hisinger 1837 birch | |
Populites dawsoni n. sp.
Populites dawsoni n. sp. | |
? Aralia sp. Linnaeus 1753 spikenard | |
Magnoliopsida | |
Celastrophyllum acutidens Fontaine 1889 | |
Cinnamomoides | |