Also known as Kootenay flora
Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.5° N, 115.0° W: paleocoordinates 48.6° N, 60.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Kootenay Formation, Neocomian to Neocomian (145.0 - 125.0 Ma)
• 355 feet abve the base of the "Passage Beds" and 230 feet above the base of the Kootenay
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; conglomeratic sandstone and coal
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
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 24786: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 20.08.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Sphenopteridae | |
Sphenopteris latiloba Fontaine 1889 | |
Gnetopsida | |
"Pityophyllum nordenskioldi" = Pityophyllum nordenskioeldi
"Pityophyllum nordenskioldi" = Pityophyllum nordenskioeldi Heer 1899 | |
Cycadopsida | |
"Nilssonia nigracollensis" = Nilsonia, "Nilssonia schaumburgensis" = Nilsonia, Taeniopteris canmorensis
"Nilssonia nigracollensis" = Nilsonia cycads
"Nilssonia schaumburgensis" = Nilsonia cycads
Taeniopteris canmorensis cycads | |
Pseudoctenis hazeltonensis cycads | |
Ginkgoopsida | |
Podozamites corbinensis podocarp
Podozamites lanceolatus Lindley and Hutton 1840 podocarp | |
Pityospermum | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Onychiopsis psilotoides Stokes and Webb 1824 | |
Coniopteris brevifolia scaly tree fern | |
Cladophlebis virginiensis Fontaine 1889 | |