Also known as K Coal bed of Dobbin and Barnett (1927)
Where: Converse County, Wyoming (43.3° N, 105.0° W: paleocoordinates 48.9° N, 83.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Lebo Member (Fort Union Formation), Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
• Channel sample, 30 to 36 inches below top of 5 foot thick K coal bed of Dobbin and Barnett (1927)
Environment/lithology: black lignite
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: adpression, original sporopollenin
Collection methods: chemical,
• Channel sample
Primary reference: H. A. Leffingwell. 1970. Palynology of the Lance (Late Cretaceous) and Fort Union (Paleocene) Formations of the type Lance area, Wyoming. Geological Society of America Special Paper 127:1-64 [S. Wing/S. Wing/S. Wing]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 31294: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Elizabeth Moore on 01.05.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Trilete indet., Straitopollis tectatus, Insulapollenites rugulatus, Pinaceae-Podocarpaceae indet., Ericaceae-Typhaceae indet., Betulaceae-Myricaceae-Casuarinaceae indet.
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Angiospermae | |
Ulmaceae indet. Brisseau-Mirbel 1815 elm | |
"Maceopolipollenites tenuipolus" = Momipites
"Maceopolipollenites tenuipolus" = Momipites | |
Syncolporites minimus mistletoe | |
Tricolpites angulolumonosus + bathyreticulatus Couper 1953
Tricolpites mutabilis Leffingwell 1971
Tricolpites parvus Stanley 1965 | |
Pteridopsida | |
Osmundacidites spp. Couper 1953 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Laevigatosporites spp. Ibrahim 1933 | |
Fraxinoipollenites | |