Cottonwood Canyon (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Bighorn County County, Wyoming (44.9° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 24.8° S, 50.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Beartooth Butte Formation, Early/Lower Devonian (419.2 - 393.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified, dolomitic, silty, sandy, conglomeratic mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

• contains basal dolomitic conglomerate overlain by a variety of dolomitic sandstones, shales, siltstones, and sandy, silty, or conglomeratic dolomites (Blackstone and McGrew, 1954; Sandberg, 1961b, 1967). plant fossils found only on exposure on southern wall of canyon.

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, permineralized, replaced with pyrite

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), chemical, mechanical, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: W. R. Tanner. 1984. A Fossil Flora from the Beartooth Butte Formation of Northern Wyoming. [P. Gensel/P. Gensel/P. Gensel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26179: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Pat Gensel on 07.10.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
"Morphotype III" indet.
probably Hostinella
Cymbosporites proteus
spore, McGregor & Camfield
? Cymbosporites senex
spore, McGregor & Camfield
Dictyotriletes
  -
Dictyotriletes indet. Naumova 1950
spore
Drepanophycus
  -
Psilophytopsida
 Psilophytales -
 Psilophytales - Psilophytaceae
Psilophyton wyomingense
= Tanner's Morphotype I
Emphanisporites
  -
Emphanisporites micrornatus
spore, Richardson & Lister
Emphanisporites ? micrornatus
spore, Richardson & Lister
cf. Emphanisporites rotatus Macgregor 1973
spore, McGregor
Retusotriletes
  -
Retusotriletes warringtonii
spore, Richardson & Lister
Retusotriletes simplex
  -
Retusotriletes simplex Naumova 1953
spore, Naumova
Osteichthyes
 Dipnorhynchiformes - Uranolophidae
Uranolophus wyomingense lungfish
vertebrate
Pteraspidomorpha
 Pteraspidiformes -
Protaspis brevispina Denison 1970
fish
Protaspis mcgrewi Denison 1970
fish
 Pteraspidiformes - Protaspididae
"Protaspis transversa" = Cosmaspis transversa, Lampraspis tuberculata
"Protaspis transversa" = Cosmaspis transversa Denison 1970
fish
Lampraspis tuberculata Denison 1970
fish
  - Cardipeltidae
Cardipeltis richardsoni Denison 1966
vertebrate
Cardipeltis bryanti Denison 1966
vertebrate
Apiculiretusispora
  -
Apiculiretusispora plicata
spore, (Allen) Streel
? Apiculiretusispora spicula
spore, Richardson & Lister