Puget Group Loc. 24 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: King County, Washington (47.3° N, 122.0° W: paleocoordinates 47.6° N, 109.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Puget Group, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; siltstone

• trough crossbedding and ripples

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, original carbon

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. J. Burnham. 1994. Paleoecological and Floristic Heterogeneity in the Plant-Fossil Record - An Analysis Based on the Eocene of Washington. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 2085-B:1-36 [H. Sims/H. Lindon/H. Lindon]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22935: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Heather Lindon on 03.07.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
cf. Macginitea angustilobia
"Platanaceae" cf. Macginitea angustiloba (Lesq) Manchester
Goweria cf. dilleri
(Knowlton) Wolfe
Angiospermae
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"Dicotyledonae "Apoc"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "LREE"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "CTCC"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "Apoc"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Apocynaceous leaf." Simple, dicotyledonous leaf
"Dicotyledonae "LREE"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Low-rank entire elliptic." Simple, dictyledonous leaf
"Dicotyledonae "CTCC"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Cercidiphyllum-Trochodendron COmplex." Simple, dicotyledonous leaf
 Lamiales - Oleaceae
Fraxinus cf. yubaensis MacGinitie 1941 ash
MacGinitie
 Rosales - Ulmaceae
Chaetoptelea sp. Liebmann elm
Chaetoptelea morepho type A Burnham
 Rosales - Rhamnaceae
"Rhamnites" sp. Forbes 1851 buckthorn
"Rhamnites" cf. Dipterocarpaceae after "Rhamnites" cashmanensis of Wolfe
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
Salix cf. heartensis Hickey 1977 willow
 Malpighiales - Violaceae
cf. Rinorea sp. Aublet
"Crenate cf. Rinorea." Simple dicotyledonous leaf
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
Carya cf. cashmanensis hickory
Wolfe
cf. Carya pugetensis hickory
"Juglandaceae" cf. Carya pugetensis Wolfe
 Fagales - Nothofagaceae
 Fabales - Fabaceae
Cladrastis cf. pugetensis yellowwood
Wolfe