Groundhog Coalfield Composite (Cretaceous to of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (56.4° N, 129.4° W: paleocoordinates 52.0° N, 73.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Hazelton Group, Neocomian to Neocomian (145.0 - 125.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shale and black coal

Size class: macrofossils

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

• composite of 22 collections where none contained more than 2 species

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 24855: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 21.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Schizeaceae
  - Schizeaceae
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
"Nilssonia schaumburgensis" = Nilsonia, "Nilssonia nigracollensis" = Nilsonia, "Nilssonia cf. tenuicaulis" = Nilsonia
"Nilssonia schaumburgensis" = Nilsonia cycads
"Nilssonia nigracollensis" = Nilsonia cycads
"Nilssonia cf. tenuicaulis" = Nilsonia cycads
Ginkgoopsida
 Ginkgoales - Ginkgoaceae
Ginkgo nana Dawson 1885 ginkgo
Ginkgo pluripartita Heer 1876 ginkgo
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Podozamites lanceolatus Lindley and Hutton 1840 podocarp
 Bennettitales -
Polypodiopsida
 Cyatheales - Polypodiidae
Coniopteris brevifolia scaly tree fern
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