RC1806 (Paleocene of the United States)

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

• 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
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Angiospermae
 Rosales - Ulmaceae
Ulmaceae indet. Brisseau-Mirbel 1815 elm
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
"Maceopolipollenites tenuipolus" = Momipites
"Maceopolipollenites tenuipolus" = Momipites
 Proteales -
 Santalales - Loranthaceae
 Gunnerales -
Pteridopsida
  -
Osmundacidites spp. Couper 1953
Polypodiopsida
  - Polypodiaceae
Fraxinoipollenites
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