Where: Weston County, Wyoming (43.6° N, 105.1° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 83.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Lebo Member (Fort Union Formation), Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
• Claystone bed 5 feet above Coal L
Environment/lithology: gray claystone
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: adpression, original sporopollenin
Collection methods: chemical,
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 31295: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Elizabeth Moore on 01.05.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Insulapollenites leboensis, Pinaceae-Podocarpaceae indet., Ericaceae-Typhaceae indet., Betulaceae-Myricaceae-Casuarinaceae indet.
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Polypodiopsida | |
Gleicheniidites spp. Dettmann 1963 | |
Laevigatosporites spp. Ibrahim 1933 | |
Fraxinoipollenites | |
Angiospermae | |
"Maceopolipollenites tenuipolus" = Momipites
"Maceopolipollenites tenuipolus" = Momipites | |
Ulmaceae indet. Brisseau-Mirbel 1815 elm | |
Syncolporites minimus mistletoe | |
Tricolpites anguloluminosus + bathyreticulatus Couper 1953
Tricolpites mutabilis Leffingwell 1971
Tricolpites parvus Stanley 1965 | |