Joffre Bridge flora* Late Paleocene
Alberta, Canada

Click on the following to see plants from Joffre Bridge:

Platanus nobilis leaves
Platanus nobilis leaves 2, 3
Platanus nobilis seedlings
Macginicarpa manchesterii
pistillate inflorescences and infructesences
Stamen clusters and pistillate infructesence
 Platananthus speirsae pollen inflorescences
Joffrea speirsii  seedlings
Joffrea speirsii  seedlings 2
Joffrea speirsii pistillate inflorescences
Joffrea speirsii folliculate infructescence
Joffrea speirsii seeds 
Joffrea speirsii probable staminate inflorescence

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Citations
Crane, P. R., and R. A. Stockey.  1985. Growth and reproductive biology of Joffrea speirsii gen. et sp. nov.,
     Cercidiphyllum-like plant from the late Paleocene of Alberta, Canada.  Can. J. Bot. 63:  340-364.
Hoffman, G. L., and R. A. Stockey.      Sporophytes, megaspores and massulae of Azolla stanleyi Jain & Hall
     from the Paleocene Joffre Bridge locality, Alberta.  Canadian Journal of Botany 72: 301-308.
Hoffman, G. L., and R. A. Stockey.  1997.  Morphology and paleoecology of Ricciopsis speirsae sp. nov. 
     (Ricciaceae) a fossil liverwort from the Paleocene Joffre Bridge locality, Canada.  Can. J. Bot.  75:  
     1375-1381.
Hoffman, G. L., and R. A. Stockey.  1999.  Geological setting and paleobotany of the Joffre Bridge Roadcut
     fossil locality (Late Paleocene), Red Deer Valley, Alberta.  Can. J. Earth Sci. 36:  2073-2084.
Pigg, K. B., and R. A. Stockey.  1991.  Platanaceous plants from the Paleocene of Alberta, Canada. Rev.
     Palaeobot. Palynol. 70:  125-146.
Stockey, R. A., and P.R. Crane.  1983.  In situ Cercidiphyllum-like seedlings from the Paleocene of Alberta,
     Canada.  Amer. J. Bot. 70: 1564-1568.
Stockey, R. A., G. L. Hoffman, and G. W. Rothwell. 1997.  The fossil monocot Limnobiophyllum scutatum:  
     resolving the phylogeny of the Lemnaceae. American Journal of Botany 84: 355-386.