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Introduction

This is the gateway page to illustrations of the specimens recovered from Cretaceous and Paleoecene rocks in Alaska and Northeastern Russia. Not every illustration is accompanied by the same level of data regarding locality, age and conventional latin names. Some have only morphotype (Form) codes as identifiers. This is because formal names are missing from the original specimens or the material has yet to be studied and described. Such specimens are nevertheless included here to give as complete an overview as possible of the diversity of plant fossil forms found in the Arctic.

A guide to the image page layout, naming and Form identifiers is given here.

Images are grouped by age, taxonomic name, collections and collector. For access to images arranged by locality please use the Maps pages.

Age

Here the images are grouped based on the age of the rock units in which the fossils occur. Some rock units have limited stratigraphic (age) range which with others the age range is less well defined. For this reason the age bins are of different sizes with different age ranges.

Paleocene (Selandian)

Santonian-Campanian

Late Albian-Cenomanian

Paleocene

Coniacian

Late Albian

Maastrichtian-Paleocene

Turonian-Coniacian

Middle Albian-Cenomanian

Maastrichtian

Turonian

Middle Albian

Campanian-Maastrichtian

Cenomanian-Turonian

Early-Middle Albian

Early Campanian

Middle Cenomanian

Early Albian

Santonian

Cenomanian

Unknown

Taxonomic Names

These are quick links to images arranged by taxonomic groups. For background information on the groups click here.

Angiosperms

Bryophytes

Conifers

Cycadophytes

Ferns

Ginkgophytes

Indeterminate

Leptostrobaleans

Lycophytes

Caytoniales

Sphenophytes

 

 

Collections

The fossils in this catalogue are housed in several institutes in the USA and Russia. Images from these various collections and accessed here. FGSM - Federal Geological Surveys Museum Magadan, GINRAS - Geological Institute Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow, MFGS - Magadan Federal Geological Surveys, NEISRI - North Eastern Integrated Scientific Research Institute Magadan, USNM - United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

FGSM GINRAS GINRAS 3384 GINRAS 3385
GINRAS 3390 GINRAS 3823 GINRAS 4843 GINRAS 4894
MFGS NEISRI PF1 NEISRI PF3 NEISRI PF4
USNM Angiosperms A-D USNM Angiosperms E-I USNM Angiosperms J-P USNM Angiosperms Q-Z
USNM Algae? USNM Bryophytes USNM Conifers A-M USNM Conifers N-Z
USNM Cycadophytes USNM Ferns A-C USNM Ferns D-Z USNM Ginkgophytes
USNM Indet. USNM Leptostrobaleans USNM Lycopods USNM Pteridosperms
USNM Sphenophytes      

 

Collector

The material imaged in this catalogue was collected by numerous field geologists and paleobotanists, representing years of field time in remote locations. Here the images are arranged according to the collectors.

Ahlberg Parrish Smiley (Pitmegea River)
Case Pergament Smiley (Unknown, Chandler River)
Detterman Philippova Smiley (Upper Colville)
Devyatilova Raikevitch Spicer, A.J.
Herman (Amaam, Arman R.) Rees Spicer, R.A. (Chignik, Grebenka)
Herman (Grebenka GINRAS) Samylina Spicer, R.A. (Ikpikpuk)
Herman (Grebenka NEISRI) Schorn Spicer, R.A. (Sagavanirktok River)
Herman (Sagavanirktok River) Shchepetov Spicer, R.A. (Upper Colville)
Hollick Smiley (Corwin Bluffs) Terechova
Lebedev, E.L. Smiley (Kuk River) Union Oil
Lewis Smiley (Kukpowruk River) Wolfe
Moiseeva Smiley (Lower Colville) Zhuravlev