Eagle Formation VB9602 (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)

• 49 meters below base of the "Big Bentonite" overlying the Eagle Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: levee; lithified mudstone and lithified sandstone

• interlaminated mudstone and sandstone (fine to very fine); tan to orange.

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
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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
 Pinidae - Pinidae
unclassified
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"Gymnospermae indet." = Pinophyta
"Gymnospermae indet." = Pinophyta Reveal 1996
EA76
Angiospermae
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Lauraceae "sp. 1" Jussieu 1789 laurel
"Cinnamomum" hesperium Knowlton 1917 cinnamon
 Mesangiosperms - Arecaceae
Sabalites sp. Saporta 1865 fan palm
 Proteales - Platanaceae
"Platanus primaeva" = Platanus latior, Platanites marginata
"Platanus primaeva" = Platanus latior Lesquereux 1868 plane tree
Platanites marginata Lesquereux 1872
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"Dicotyledonae "sp. 2"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "sp. 2"" = Dicotyledoneae
 Fagales - Nothofagaceae
Polypodiopsida
 Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
Anemia fremonti Knowlton 1917