THE APPLICATION OF A NEW NOMENCLATURAL APPROACH TO UPPER CRETACEOUS PLANT MICROFOSSILS FROM WESTERN CANADA

1957 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn E. Rouse
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
Vancouver Island ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Southern Alberta ◽  
Plant Microfossils ◽  
New System

A new system of nomenclature is proposed with the purpose of presenting a scheme which will be applicable to spores, pollens, and other microfossils from all geological ages. A review of previous nomenclatural systems is presented to indicate the historical development of microfossil nomenclature. The applicability of the new system is illustrated by naming 21 new species and four new genera of Upper Cretaceous microfossils from the Comox formation of Vancouver Island and the Oldman formation of southern Alberta. The microfossil conspecti are briefly compared with the assemblage previously reported from the Brazeau formation of western Alberta. Advantages of the new nomenclatural scheme are discussed in the light of future discoveries of plant microfossils, and their application to palaeobotanical and geological problems.

Notes on Polychaeta from the East Coast of Vancouver Island and from Adjacent Waters, with a Description of a New Species of Aricidea

1956 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Berkeley ◽  
C. Berkeley
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Vancouver Island ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Western North America ◽  
A New Species

Records are given of two species and a variety new to western Canada and notes on three other species already known from the region. A new species, Aricidea lopezi, and four species new to western North America, are described from the neighbourhood of Friday Harbour, Washington.

A new species of Petrolisthes STIMPSON, 1858 (Anomura, Porcellanidae) from the Upper Cretaceous (upper Santonian) of Vancouver Island, Canada

2020 ◽  
Vol 298 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Alessandro Garassino ◽  
Torrey Nyborg ◽  
John Fam ◽  
Dan Bowden ◽  
Raymond Graham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
New Species ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
Vancouver Island ◽  
Geographical Range ◽  
Northeastern Pacific ◽  
A New Species

A new porcellanid crab, Petrolisthes landsendi Garassino & Nyborg n. sp., from the Upper Cretaceous (upper Santonian) Nanaimo Group of Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada) is herein described. Petrolisthes landsendi Garassino & Nyborg n. sp. represents the oldest species of Petrolisthes Stimpson, 1858 and is the first species from the northeastern Pacific, thus expanding the stratigraphical age and geographical range of the genus.

New Onychiuridae (Collembola) from Vancouver Island

1976 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Rusek
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
New Species ◽  
Vancouver Island ◽  
New Genera ◽  
The Status

Three new genera and six new species from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, are described: Sensiphorura marshalli gen. et sp.nov. (Pachytullbergiinae), Granuliphorura obtusochaeta gen. et sp.nov., Chaetophorura vancouverica gen. et sp.nov., Mesaphorura pacifica sp.nov., Mesaphorura macrochaeta sp.nov. (Tullbergiinae), and Onychiurus eisi sp.nov. (Onychiurinae). The status of the subfamily Pachytullbergiinae is discussed and all described species are briefly synecologically characterized.

Additions to the Polychaete Fauna of Canada, with Comments on Some Older Records

1954 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 454-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Berkeley ◽  
C. Berkeley
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Eastern Canada ◽  
New Variety ◽  
The Pacific

Descriptions are given of the new genera Neopygospio (type N. laminifera, nov.) and Novobranchus (type N. pacificus, nov.); of the new species Nereis (Eunereis) wailesi, Spio butleri, Neopygospio laminifera, Novobranchus pacificus; and of the new variety pacificus of Distylia volutacornis (Montagu). All are from the Pacific coast of Canada. Synonymy is proposed of Lepidonotus caelorus Moore with L. squamatus (Linné), and of Goniada eximia Ehlers with Ophioglycera gigantea Verrill. In addition to the new species and variety, records of three species new to western Canada are presented, and notes on others. Thirteen species and a variety new to eastern Canada are recorded, one of them new to North America.

CANADA'S FIRST KNOWN DINOSAURS: PALAEONTOLOGY AND COLLECTING HISTORY OF UPPER CRETACEOUS VERTEBRATES IN SOUTHERN ALBERTA AND SASKATCHEWAN, 1874–1889

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 184-218
Author(s):  
BRIGID E. CHRISTISON ◽  
DARREN H. TANKE ◽  
JORDAN C. MALLON
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Record ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Vertebral Centra ◽  
Southern Alberta ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
British North American ◽  
Diversity Dynamics ◽  
Provincial Park

The early collecting history of dinosaurs and other fossil vertebrates in Western Canada during the 1870s and 1880s is poorly documented. Initial finds were made by the British North American Boundary Commission and the Geological Survey of Canada in modern Saskatchewan and Alberta but, beyond a few well-publicized examples, little is known about precisely what was found and where. Much of the collected material is now housed in the collections of the Canadian Museum of Nature in Gatineau, Quebec, and a recent survey of these historic finds allows for the first comprehensive narrative regarding their identity and procurement. The collection is heavily biased towards vertebral centra and phalanges, reflective of both taphonomic and collecting biases. Given current understanding of Upper Cretaceous assemblages of North America, ornithomimids and small theropods are overrepresented, whereas ceratopsids and ankylosaurs are underrepresented. Fossils from the Belly River Group are best represented, after repeated visits to the areas of present-day Dinosaur Provincial Park and Ross Coulee near Irvine, Alberta. Taxonomic identification of the material has yielded numerous first Canadian occurrences, in addition to some first global occurrences. The latter include the first ever occurrences of Caenagnathidae (1884) and Thescelosauridae (1889). The Upper Cretaceous fossil record of Western Canada is among the richest in the world, and has been thoroughly studied over the last century. These fossils have informed our understanding of dinosaur behaviour, taphonomy, ecology, diversity dynamics, and extinction, among other aspects. But, like the animals themselves, the story of Canada's dinosaur-hunting legacy had humble beginnings—a story that has not been fully revealed before now.

New anaxyelids (Hymenoptera: Anaxyelidae) from the Cretaceous of Asia

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4603 (2) ◽  
pp. 341 ◽  
Author(s):  
DMITRY S. KOPYLOV
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
New Genera ◽  
The World

Four new genera and five new species of anaxyelids are described from the Cretaceous of Asia: Mangus magnus gen. et sp. nov. from the Aptian of Mongolia (Bon-Tsagan), Urosyntexis undosa sp. nov., Parasyntexis khasurtensis gen. et sp. nov., both from the Early Cretaceous of Transbaikalia (Khasurty), Dolichosyntexis transbaikalicus gen. et sp. nov. from the Hauterivian–Barremian of Transbaikalia (Baissa), and Curiosyntexis magadanicus gen. et sp. nov. from the mid-Upper Cretaceous of NE Siberia (Obeshchayushchiy). Early Cretaceous is the time of the highest diversity of Anaxyelidae. In this epoch these sawflies are represented with all four subfamilies comprising the group. In Late Cretaceous anaxyelid diversity and abundance rapidly decrease and they are represented with the only subfamily Syntexinae. The anaxyelid collection of Palaeontological Institute (Moscow), the most representative collection of fossil anaxyelids in the world, has been completely revised, identified and described. The list of identifications is provided.

Fossil seed cuticles from the Upper Cretaceous Whitemud beds of Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada

1983 ◽  
Vol 61 (10) ◽  
pp. 2717-2728 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pier L. Binda ◽  
E. M. V. Nambudiri
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Subtropical Climate ◽  
Lacustrine Environment ◽  
Extant Genus ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
Southern Alberta

Abundant fossil cuticles are associated with megaspores in the Upper Cretaceous Whitemud beds of the southern Alberta plains and in the Whitemud Formation of the Cypress Hills. Form genera Spermatites Miner and Costatheca (Dijkstra) Hall are emended, and the new genus Carpotheca is described. The three genera are differentiated by shape and orientation of cuticular cells. Ten new species of seed cuticles are described. The affinity of Spermatites with the extant genus Juncus L. is reaffirmed, and it is suggested that Costatheca may be related to extant species of Butomus L. In the Whitemud, Costatheca is more abundant in the Alberta plains, whereas Spermatites and Carpotheca are better represented in the Cypress Hills. The fossil microfloral assemblage indicates that these beds were deposited in a continental, fluviatile to lacustrine environment, having a subtropical climate, in agreement with previous sedimentological, isotopic, and palynological investigations.

scholarly journals New insights into chasmosaurine (Dinosauria: Ceratopsidae) skulls from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) of Alberta, and an update on the distribution of accessory frill fenestrae in Chasmosaurinae

PeerJ ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. e5194
Author(s):  
James A. Campbell ◽  
Michael J. Ryan ◽  
Claudia J. Schröder-Adams ◽  
David C. Evans ◽  
Robert B. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Variation ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Size And Shape ◽  
Southern Alberta ◽  
Position And Orientation ◽  
Dinosaur Park Formation

Chasmosaurine ceratopsids are well documented from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Dinosaur Park Formation (DPF) of southern Alberta and Saskatchewan, and includeChasmosaurus belli,Chasmosaurus russelli,Mercuriceratops gemini,Vagaceratops irvinensis, and material possibly referable toSpiclypeus shipporum.In this study, we describe three recently prepared chasmosaurine skulls (CMN 8802, CMN 34829, and TMP 2011.053.0046) from the DPF, and age-equivalent sediments, of Alberta. CMN 8802 and CMN 34829 are both referred toChasmosaurussp. based on the size and shape of the preserved parietal fenestrae. TMP 2011.053.0046 is referred toVagaceratopssp. based on the position and orientation of its preserved epiparietals. Each skull is characterized by the presence of an accessory fenestra in either the squamosal (CMN 8802 and TMP 2011.053.0046) or parietal (CMN 34829). Such fenestrae are common occurrences in chasmosaurine squamosals, but are rare in the parietal portion of the frill. The origin of the fenestrae in these three specimens is unknown, but they do not appear to exhibit evidence of pathology, as has been previously interpreted for the accessory fenestrae in most other chasmosaurine frills. These three skulls contribute to a better understanding of the morphological variation, and geographic and stratigraphic distribution, of chasmosaurines within the DPF and age-equivalent sediments in Western Canada.

Palynology of Oligocene sediments from central British Columbia

1971 ◽  
Vol 49 (11) ◽  
pp. 1885-1920 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. M. Piel
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Subtropical Climate ◽  
Fraser River ◽  
Coast Range ◽  
The West ◽  
Plant Microfossils ◽  
Warm Temperate

Plant microfossils have been recovered from Oligocene sediments which outcrop along the Fraser River in the central interior of British Columbia, Canada. The sediments are composed of interbedded clays, sands, gravels, and lignites which were deposited as a part of an ancestral Fraser River system.The most commonly encountered members of the assemblage are Quercus, Alnus Carya, Liquidambar, Ulmus/Zelkova, Juglans, Pterocarya, Osmunda, and members of the Taxodiaceae, with infrequent occurrences of Engelhardtia, Prosopis, ?Psilotum, Ephedra, and ?Dorstenia. This assemblage suggests a warm temperate to near subtropical climate. A warm polar sea, a lowered Coast Range to the west, and a greater elevation of the Rockies to the east are suggested as a possible explanation for the climate.One new genus and 11 new species have been erected. Several species, including Prosopis quesneli, Diervilla echinata, Triporate B, and Taxodium rousei appear to be restricted to these beds, and may well be good index fossils for the Oligocene of western Canada.

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