Horton River, District Mackenzie, NWT, C-8597, >25 µm (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (69.5° N, 127.0° W: paleocoordinates 77.8° N, 66.8° W)

When: Mason River Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. M. Tapia and D. M. Harwood. 2002. Upper Cretaceous diatom biostratigraphy of the Arctic archipelago and northern continental margin, Canada. Micropaleontology 48(4):303-342 [C. Cervato/C. Cervato]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 57614: authorized by Cinzia Cervato, entered by Cinzia Cervato on 13.12.2005

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Hemiaulus
  - Biddulphiaceae
Bacillariophyceae
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 Melosirales - Stephanopyxidaceae
 Coscinodiscales - Heliopeltaceae
 Coscinodiscales - Coscinodiscaceae
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Corinna sp. 1 Heiberg 1863 diatom
 Rhizosoleniales - Rhizosoleniaceae
 Centrales -
Sheshukovia sp. 1 Gleser 1975 diatom
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 Rhaphoneidales - Rhaphoneidaceae
 Paraliales - Paraliaceae
Paralia sulcata Ehrenberg 1838 diatom
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