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
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 | |
"Coniferae indet." = Pinophyta
"Coniferae indet." = Pinophyta Reveal 1996 | |
unclassified | |
"Gymnospermae indet." = Pinophyta
| |
Angiospermae | |
"Cinnamomum" hesperium Knowlton 1917 cinnamon | |
Pistia corrugata Lesquereux 1874 water cabbage | |
Sabalites sp. Saporta 1865 fan palm | |
Trochodendroides sp. Berry 1922 | |
Platanites marginata Lesquereux 1872 | |
Paranymphaea hastata water lily | |
"Quercus" stantoni Knowlton 1917 oak | |
Manihotites georgiana Berry 1910 mallow | |
Protophyllum | |
Protophyllum sp. Lesquereux 1874 |