Colville River - Campanian (Cretaceous of the United States)
Where: Alaska (70.0° N, 152.0° W: paleocoordinates 82.3° N, 128.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Kogosukruk Tongue Member (Prince Creek Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: fluvial; mudstone and sandstone
• fluvial-deltaic
• "Plant megafossils generally found in the overbank mudstones and lacustrine (pond) claystones, although the wood specimens were collected from channel sandstones and levee deposits as well."
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original carbon
Primary reference: R. A. Spicer and J.T. Parrish. 1990. Latest Cretaceous woods of the central North Slope, Alaska. Palaeontology 33(1):225-242 [B. Tiffney/J. Fosdick/J. Fosdick]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 31315: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Julia Fosdick on 06.05.2003
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Xenoxylon latiporosum Cramer 1868 | |