Fernie (Cretaceous to of Canada)

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
  - Sphenopteridae
Gnetopsida
  -
"Pityophyllum nordenskioldi" = Pityophyllum nordenskioeldi
"Pityophyllum nordenskioldi" = Pityophyllum nordenskioeldi Heer 1899
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
"Nilssonia nigracollensis" = Nilsonia, "Nilssonia schaumburgensis" = Nilsonia, Taeniopteris canmorensis
"Nilssonia nigracollensis" = Nilsonia cycads
"Nilssonia schaumburgensis" = Nilsonia cycads
 Cycadales - Nilssoniaceae
Ginkgoopsida
 Czekanowskiales -
 Ginkgoales - Ginkgoaceae
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Podozamites lanceolatus Lindley and Hutton 1840 podocarp
 Bennettitales -
Pityospermum
  -
Polypodiopsida
  - Polypodiaceae
Onychiopsis psilotoides Stokes and Webb 1824
 Cyatheales - Polypodiidae
Coniopteris brevifolia scaly tree fern
 Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
  -
 Equisetales - Equisetidae