Snake River Canyon (Jurassic to of the United States)

Where: Oregon/Idaho (45.6° N, 116.5° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° N, 57.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Coon Hollow Formation, Bajocian to Bajocian (170.3 - 163.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; lithified, conglomeratic sandstone and lithified, gray shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, permineralized, coalified

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: S. Ash. 1991. A new Jurassic Phlebopteris (Plantae, Filicales) from the Wallowa terrane in the Snake River Canyon, Oregon and Idaho. Journal of Paleontology 65(2):322-329 [A. Rees/D. Sunderlin/D. Sunderlin]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24792: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 20.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
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Cladophlebis spp. Brongniart 1849
  - Dicksoniaceae
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
  - Polypodiaceae
Adiantites sp. Goeppert 1836
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Neocalamites sp. Halle 1908
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Mesembrioxylon sp. Seward 1919 podocarp
Podozamites sp. Braun 1843 podocarp
Ginkgoopsida
 Caytoniales - Caytoniaceae
Sagenopteris sp. Presl 1838
 Ginkgoales - Ginkgoaceae
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Pagiophyllum sp. Heer 1881
Brachyphyllum sp. Brongniart 1828
Lycopodiopsida
 Isoetales - Isoetaceae
Isoetites sp. Münster 1842 clubmoss