Where: Saskatchewan, Canada (49.5° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 55.6° N, 85.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Ravenscrag Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
• The stratigraphic position of the collection is given relative to the No. 1 coal zone, which is approximately at the base of the formation. US32 is located 17 m above No. 1 coal zone (southeast face). It is from clays below narrow coal seam.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: salvage, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: E. E. McIver and J. F. Basinger. 1993. Flora of the Ravenscrag Formation (Paleocene), Southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada. Palaeontographica Canadiana 10:1-85 [R. Lupia/B. Wilborn/B. Wilborn]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34424: authorized by Rick Lupia, entered by Brooke Wilborn on 31.08.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Plantae "Unidentified leaf 2", Plantae "Unidentified fruit 2", Plantae "Unidentified seed", Plantae "Unidentified remain"
Plantae "Unidentified leaf 2" Haeckel 1866
Plantae "Unidentified fruit 2" Haeckel 1866
Plantae "Unidentified seed" Haeckel 1866
Plantae "Unidentified remain" Haeckel 1866 | |
Magnoliopsida | |
Dicotylophyllum anomalum Ward 1887 | |
Angiospermae | |
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"Carpites verrucosus" = Porosia verrucosa
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Polypodiopsida | |
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