Hazelton-Cedarville Composite (Jurassic to of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (55.3° N, 127.6° W: paleocoordinates 51.0° N, 73.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Hazelton Group, Late/Upper Jurassic to Late/Upper Jurassic (161.5 - 100.5 Ma)

• correlative with Skeena Formation?

Environment/lithology: carbonaceous shale and black coal

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: coalified

Collection methods: composite of many localites in the Hazelton-Cedarville Area

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 24850: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 21.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gnetopsida
  -
"Pityophyllum nordenskioldi" = Pityophyllum nordenskioeldi
"Pityophyllum nordenskioldi" = Pityophyllum nordenskioeldi Heer 1899
Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae
Schizeaceae
  - Schizeaceae
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
"Nilssonia schaumburgensis" = Nilsonia, "Nilssonia nigracollensis" = Nilsonia, "Nilssonia brongniarti" = Nilsonia, "Nilssonia canadensis" = Nilsonia
"Nilssonia schaumburgensis" = Nilsonia cycads
"Nilssonia nigracollensis" = Nilsonia cycads
"Nilssonia brongniarti" = Nilsonia cycads
"Nilssonia canadensis" = Nilsonia cycads
 Cycadales - Nilssoniaceae
Ctenopteris
  -
Ctenopteris insignis Fontaine 1889
Ginkgoopsida
 Caytoniales - Caytoniaceae
 Ginkgoales - Ginkgoaceae
Ginkgo nana Dawson 1885 ginkgo
Ginkgo pluripartita Heer 1876 ginkgo
 Czekanowskiales -
 Bennettitales -
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Podozamites lanceolatus Lindley and Hutton 1840 podocarp
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxaceae
Elatides curvifolia Dunker 1846 yew
Polypodiopsida
  -
 Cyatheales - Polypodiidae
Coniopteris brevifolia scaly tree fern
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
 Equisetales - Equisetidae