Identification guide to the fossil plants of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Drumheller, Alberta
By: Kevin R. Aulenback.
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Calgary
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781552382479
Subjects: Plants, Fossil -- Alberta -- Horseshoe Canyon Formation -- Identification; Paleobotany -- Alberta -- Horseshoe Canyon Formation -- Guidebooks; Palynology -- Alberta -- Horseshoe Canyon Formation -- Guidebooks; Paleobotany -- Cretaceous
Genres: Identification; Guidebooks
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Purpose; title: Geology of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation. Ash beds ; Coal seam or zone markers ; Palynology ; Palaeo-magnetostratigraphy; title: Types of preservation and methods of study. Compression impressions ; Casts and moulds ; Petrification ; Carbonization ; Collecting specimens ; Cataloguing, preparation, and study of specimens ; Problems encountered with interpretation of fossil specimens ; Classification of fossil plants found in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation; title: The history of fossil plant collecting in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Drumheller, Alberta; title: Present status of the plant fossil record. Kingdom Protista ; Kingdom Myceteae ; Division Thallophyta ; Kingdom Plantae ; Division Hepatophyta ; Division Bryophyta ; Division Lycopodiophyta ; Division Sphenophyta ; Division Filicophyta ; Division Cycadophyta ; Division Ginkgophyta ; Division Coniferophyta ; Division Angiospermophyta; title: Environmental reconstruction of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation based on the flora; title: Environmental reconstruction of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation based on the fauna; title: Food for though t: dinosaur/plant interactions; title: Conclusion.