Eagle Formation VB9613 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.4° 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)

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: channel lag; lithified sandstone

• tan (light), fine sandstone; cross-bedded

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 27366: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Sara Pendleton on 04.12.2002, edited by Bruce Tiffney

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Montania glandulosa n. gen. n. sp., Ascarinites communis n. gen. n. sp., Semiungula assymetrica n. gen. n. sp., Anceptophyllum pulcrum 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
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxaceae
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
cf. Glyptostrobus sp. Endlicher 1847 Chinese swamp cypress
Angiospermae
 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
 Fagales - Fagaceae
"Quercus" stantoni Knowlton 1917 oak
 Fagales - Nothofagaceae
Polypodiopsida
 Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
Anemia fremonti Knowlton 1917
Pteridopsida
 Filicales -