Also known as Locality 42 of MacGinitie 1941
Where: Nevada County, California (39.1° N, 120.9° W: paleocoordinates 40.7° N, 106.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, original carbon
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: H. D. MacGinitie. 1941. A Middle Eocene Flora from the Central Sierra Nevada. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 534:1-178 [H. Sims/H. Lindon/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 24002: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Heather Lindon on 26.07.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Nelumbium lacunosum n. sp.
Nelumbium lacunosum n. sp. MacGinitie 1941 water lily | |
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Nyssa californica MacGinitie 1941 tupelo | |
Viburnum variabilis MacGinitie 1941 honeysuckle | |
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Meliosma truncata n. sp.
Meliosma truncata n. sp. MacGinitie 1941 | |
"Platanophyllum angustiloba" = Macginitiea angustiloba, "Platanophyllum whitneyi" = Macginitiea whitneyi, Platanus appendiculata
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Engelhardtia nevadensis MacGinitie 1941 | |
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Dicotyledoneae | |
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Zamites californica MacGinitie 1941 | |
Carpites | |
Carpites egregia MacGinitie 1941 |