Where: Lincoln County, Wyoming (42.1° N, 110.5° W: paleocoordinates 42.0° N, 69.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Aspen Shale Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: adpression, original carbon
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: D. R. Crabtree. 1987. Angiosperms of the Northern Rocky Mountains: Albian to Campanian (Cretaceous) megafossil floras. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 74:707-747 [B. Tiffney/J. Fosdick/J. Fosdick]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 31174: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Julia Fosdick on 15.04.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
Sapindopsis schultzii soapberry | |
? Staphylea fremontii bladdernut | |
Prunus aspensis plum | |
Sparganium aspensis bur-reed | |
Nelumbo weymouthii lotus | |
Dryandroides lanceolata Knowlton 1917 | |
Laurus aspensis laurel
Sassafras bradleyi sassafras |