Brushy Basin 3 (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as Montezuma Creek

Where: Utah (37.3° N, 109.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 56.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Brushy Basin Member (Morrison Formation), Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), surface (in situ), chemical, mechanical,

Primary reference: S. Ash. 1994. First occurrence of Czekanowskia (Gymnospermae, Czekanowskiales) in the United States. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 81:129-140 [A. Rees/D. Sunderlin/D. Sunderlin]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24799: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 20.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ginkgoopsida
 Czekanowskiales -
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Araucariacites fissus Reiser and Williams 1969
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Microcachrydites sp. Cookson 1947 podocarp
Callialasporites turbatus Schulz 1967 podocarp
Callialasporites segmentatus Balme 1961 podocarp
Cerebropollenites
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Exesipollenites tumulosus
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