Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.6° 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)
• 51.5 meters below the base of the "Big Bentonite" overlying the Eagle Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: pond; lithified, gray claystone and lithified mudstone
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 27316: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Sara Pendleton on 01.12.2002, edited by Bruce Tiffney
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Retinovena fluvialis n. gen. n. sp., Lesterwardia palustris n. gen. n. sp., Ascarinites communis n. gen. n. sp.
Retinovena fluvialis n. gen. n. sp.
Lesterwardia palustris n. gen. n. sp.
Ascarinites communis n. gen. n. sp. | |
Equisetopsida | |
Magnoliopsida | |
Quereuxia angulata Newberry 1953 | |
Angiospermae | |
Pistia corrugata Lesquereux 1874 water cabbage | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Anemia fremonti Knowlton 1917 | |
"Saccoloma" gardneri Lesquereux 1873 | |
"Woodwardia" crenata Knowlton 1900 | |
Equisetum "sp. 2" Linnaeus 1753 horsetail | |
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