Where: Bighorn County County, Wyoming (44.9° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 25.2° S, 49.7° 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 mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments
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
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"Morphotype III" indet., Paleocuticularia perforata n. gen. n. sp., Aneurospora indet., Cymbosporites proteus, ? Cymbosporites senex, Synorisporites indet.
Paleocuticularia perforata n. gen. n. sp. | |
Pteraspidomorpha | |
"Protaspis transversa" = Cosmaspis transversa, Lampraspis tuberculata
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Osteichthyes | |
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Dictyotriletes | |
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Retusotriletes | |
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Retusotriletes simplex | |
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Emphanisporites | |
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Psilophytopsida | |
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Drepanophycus | |
Apiculiretusispora | |
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