Where: Montana (47.0° N, 110.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 54.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Morrison Formation, Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)
• correlative with Canadian Kootenay, Nikanassin, Tantalus, and Hazelton Group. Not the Brushy Basin/Salt Wash as these members do not exist in Montana.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, adpression, permineralized
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,
• composite of 4 localities in "central Montana"
Primary reference: W. D. Tidwell. 1990. Preliminary report on the megafossil flora of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. Hunteria 2(8):1-11 [A. Rees/D. Sunderlin/D. Sunderlin]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 24668: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 15.08.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Pityocladus | |
Pityocladus sp. Seward 1919 | |
Ginkgoopsida | |
Sagenopteris elliptica Fontaine 1889 | |
Ginkgoites | |
Cycadopsida | |
"Nilssonia cf. compta" = Nilsonia
"Nilssonia cf. compta" = Nilsonia cycads | |
Hepaticae | |
Marchantiolites sp. Lundblad 1954 liverwort | |
Equisetopsida | |
Pagiophyllum sp. Heer 1881 | |
Gnetopsida | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Cladophlebis heterophylla Fontaine 1892
Cladophlebis virginiensis Fontaine 1889 | |
Equisetum laterale horsetail | |
Coniopteris hymenophylloides Brongniart 1828 scaly tree fern | |
Cycadolepis spp. Saporta 1875
Zamites arcticus Göppert 1863
Weltrichia sp. Braun 1843
Anomozamites sp. Schimper 1870 | |
Podozamites lanceolatus Lindley and Hutton 1840 podocarp | |
Schizolepis sp. Braun 1847 |