Eagle Formation VB9603 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.5° N, 108.5° 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)

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• silty mudstone (small amount of very fine sandstone); tan to light gray

Size class: macrofossils

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 27314: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Sara Pendleton on 01.12.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Retinovena fluvialis n. gen. n. sp., Montania glandulosa 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.
Semiungula assymetrica n. gen. n. sp.
Anceptophyllum pulcrum n. gen. n. sp.
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
 Coniferae -
"Coniferae indet." = Pinophyta
"Coniferae indet." = Pinophyta Reveal 1996
unclassified
  -
"Gymnospermae indet." = Pinophyta
"Gymnospermae indet." = Pinophyta Reveal 1996
EA76
Angiospermae
 Laurales - Lauraceae
"Cinnamomum" hesperium Knowlton 1917 cinnamon
 Mesangiosperms - Araceae
Pistia corrugata Lesquereux 1874 water cabbage
 Mesangiosperms - Arecaceae
Sabalites sp. Saporta 1865 fan palm
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanites marginata Lesquereux 1872
 Nymphaeales - Nymphaeaceae
 Fagales - Fagaceae
"Quercus" stantoni Knowlton 1917 oak
 Malvales - Malvaceae
Manihotites georgiana Berry 1910 mallow
Protophyllum
  -
Protophyllum sp. Lesquereux 1874