Purple Mountain Flora 702 (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as 702

Where: Lyon County, Nevada (39.6° N, 119.3° W: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 116.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Chloropagus Formation, Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, black, gray shale

• Dark gray to black shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: D.I. Axelrod. 1995. The Miocene Purple Mountain Flora of Western Nevada. 139:1-62 [B. Tiffney/M. Sherwood/B. Tiffney]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27629: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Michael Sherwood on 16.12.2002, edited by Julia Fosdick

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Pinaceae
Angiospermae
 Rosales - Rhamnaceae
 Rosales - Rosaceae
"Heteromeles stenophylla" = Photinia (Heteromeles) rose
 Rosales - Papilionaceae
Robinia californica Axelrod 1939
 Rosales - Pomaceae
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
 Fagales - Betulaceae
 Fagales - Fagaceae
 Ranunculales - Berberidaceae
Dicotyledoneae
 Ericales - Ericaceae
 Ericales - Vacciniaceae