Eagle Formation VB9601 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Park County, Wyoming (45.0° N, 108.9° W: paleocoordinates 52.0° N, 76.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lettered Sands Member (Eagle Formation), Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• 37.8 meters below the base of the "Big Bentonitei" overlying the Eagle Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: levee; lithified, gray, sandy mudstone

• sandy mudstone, brownish gray to light gray

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: M. C. Van Boskirk. 1998. The flora of the Eagle Formation and its significance for Late Cretaceous floristic evolution. Yale University 1-382 [B. Tiffney/S. Pendleton/S. Pendleton]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27135: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Sara Pendleton on 19.11.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Angiospermae
 Laurales -
 Laurales - Lauraceae
"Cinnamomum" hesperium Knowlton 1917 cinnamon
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
 Proteales - Platanaceae
"Platanus primaeva" = Platanus latior
"Platanus primaeva" = Platanus latior Lesquereux 1868 plane tree
Dicotyledoneae
 Hamamelidae - Hamamelidae
Angiospermae
 Fagales - Nothofagaceae
Polypodiopsida
 Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
Asplenium neomexicanum Knowlton 1916 spleenwort
  - Blechnaceae
"Woodwardia" crenata Knowlton 1900