Upper Frontier Formation - Lincoln County (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Lincoln County, Wyoming (41.8° N, 110.5° W: paleocoordinates 47.9° N, 76.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Frontier Formation, Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; claystone

• "...widespread beds of coal in the Frontier Formation is a conclusive indication of a humid climate..."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, original carbon

Collection methods: For further modifications, see Crabtree, D.R. 1987. Angiosperms of the Northern Rocky Mountains: Albian to Campanian (Cretaceous) Megafossil floras. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 74: 707-747.

Primary reference: E.W. Berry. 1929. The flora of the Frontier Formation. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 158:129-135 [B. Tiffney/J. Fosdick/J. Fosdick]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31382: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Julia Fosdick on 11.05.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Dewalquea
  -
Dewalquea pulchella Knowlton 1917
Angiospermae
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Cinnamomum ? sp. Schaeffer 1760 cinnamon
Cinnamomum hesperium Knowlton 1917 cinnamon
 Liliales - Smilacaceae
Smilax ? coloradensis Knowlton 1917 greenbrier
 Mesangiosperms - Arecaceae
Sabalites sp. Saporta 1865 fan palm
 Apiales - Araliaceae
Aralia veatchii Knowlton 1917 spikenard
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
Salix cumberlandensis Knowlton 1917 willow
Salix frontierensis Knowlton 1917 willow
 Fagales - Myricaceae
Myrica nervosa Knowlton 1917 bayberry
 Fagales - Fagaceae
Quercus stantoni Knowlton 1917 oak
 Crossosomatales - Staphyleaceae
Staphylea ? fremonti Knowlton 1917 bladdernut
 Rosids - Moraceae
Ficus ? sp. Linnaeus 1753 fig
Ficus fremonti Knowlton 1917 fig
Polypodiopsida
  - Polypodiaceae
  - Osmundaceae
"Asplenium occidentale" = Osmunda occidentale
"Asplenium occidentale" = Osmunda occidentale Knowlton 1917
 Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
Anemia fremonti Knowlton 1917
 Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
Tapeinidium ? undulatum Hall 1842 lace fern
Dryopteris coloradensis Knowlton 1917
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Equisetum sp. Linnaeus 1753 horsetail
Phyllites
  -
Phyllites sp. Brongniart 1822
Phyllites dentata Knowlton 1917