Divide between Snake River and Yellowstone Lake (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Wyoming (44.0° N, 110.0° W: paleocoordinates 51.5° N, 85.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Laramie Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: F. H. Knowlton. 1899. Fossil Flora of the Yellowstone National Park. USGS Monograph Series 32(2) [H. Sims/H. Lindon/H. Lindon]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35579: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Jason Cassara on 29.12.2003

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Taxonomic list

Dicotyledoneae
 Ericales - Ebenaceae
Diospyros stenosepala Heer 1869
"very doubtful" (Knowlton 1899)
Angiospermae
 Mesangiosperms - Arecaceae
Geonomites schimperi Lesquereux 1878 palm
Polypodiopsida
 Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
Anemia subcretacea Gard and Ett 1880