UCMP loc. P3347, Sailor Flat (Eocene of the United States)

Where: California (39.0° N, 120.0° W: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 105.4° 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 24013: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Heather Lindon on 28.07.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Dicotyledoneae
 Ericales - Theaceae
Gordonia egregia Lesquereux 1878 tea
new comb.
Angiospermae
 Sapindales - Anacardiaceae
Rhus mixta Lesquereux 1878 sumac
Lesquereux
 Sapindales - Sapindaceae
Thouinopsis myricaefolia Lesquereux 1878 soapberry
new comb.
 Sapindales - Burseraceae
Canarium californicum Lesquereux 1878
new comb.
 Rosales - Ulmaceae
Chaetoptelea pseudofulva Lesquereux 1878 elm
new comb.
 Malpighiales - Euphorbiaceae
Mallotus riparius MacGinitie 1941 spurge
new name
 Fagales - Fagaceae
Quercus nevadensis Lesquereux 1878 oak
Lesquereux
Castanopsis longipetiolatum Knowlton 1899 chinquapin
new comb.
Quercophyllum platanoides n. sp. MacGinitie 1941
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
Engelhardtia nevadensis MacGinitie 1941
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanus appendiculata, "Platanophyllum whitneyi" = Macginitiea whitneyi
Platanus appendiculata Lesquereux 1878 plane tree
Lesquereux
"Platanophyllum whitneyi" = Macginitiea whitneyi Lesquereux 1878
new comb.
 Saxifragales - Hamamelidaceae
Liquidambar californicum Lesquereux 1878 sweetgum
Lesquereux
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
Cercidiphyllum elongatum Brown 1939 katsura
Brown
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Persea pseudocarolinensis Lesquereux 1878 laurel
Lesquereux
Cinnamomum dilleri Knowlton 1902 cinnamon
Knowlton
 Bennettitales -
Zamites californica MacGinitie 1941
Carpites
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Carpites egregia MacGinitie 1941