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)
• 49 meters below base of the "Big Bentonite" overlying the Eagle Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: levee; lithified mudstone and lithified sandstone
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 27136: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Sara Pendleton on 19.11.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Retinovena fluvialis n. gen. n. sp., Montania glandulosa n. gen. n. sp., Ascarinites communis n. gen. n. sp., Semiungula assymetrica n. gen. n. sp., Anceptophyllum pulcrum n. gen. n. sp.
Retinovena fluvialis n. gen. n. sp.
Montania glandulosa n. gen. n. sp.
Ascarinites communis n. gen. n. sp.
Semiungula assymetrica n. gen. n. sp.
Anceptophyllum pulcrum n. gen. n. sp. | |
Equisetopsida | |
unclassified | |
"Gymnospermae indet." = Pinophyta
| |
Angiospermae | |
Lauraceae "sp. 1" Jussieu 1789 laurel
"Cinnamomum" hesperium Knowlton 1917 cinnamon | |
Sabalites sp. Saporta 1865 fan palm | |
"Platanus primaeva" = Platanus latior, Platanites marginata
"Platanus primaeva" = Platanus latior Lesquereux 1868 plane tree
Platanites marginata Lesquereux 1872 | |
"Dicotyledonae "sp. 2"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "sp. 2"" = Dicotyledoneae | |
Dryophyllum polymorphum n. sp.
Dryophyllum polymorphum n. sp. | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Anemia fremonti Knowlton 1917 |