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
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 | |
Cinnamomum ? sp. Schaeffer 1760 cinnamon
Cinnamomum hesperium Knowlton 1917 cinnamon | |
Smilax ? coloradensis Knowlton 1917 greenbrier | |
Sabalites sp. Saporta 1865 fan palm | |
Aralia veatchii Knowlton 1917 spikenard | |
Salix cumberlandensis Knowlton 1917 willow
Salix frontierensis Knowlton 1917 willow | |
Myrica nervosa Knowlton 1917 bayberry | |
Quercus stantoni Knowlton 1917 oak | |
Staphylea ? fremonti Knowlton 1917 bladdernut | |
Ficus ? sp. Linnaeus 1753 fig
Ficus fremonti Knowlton 1917 fig | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Microtaenia paucifolia Hall 1845
Microtaenia variabilis Knowlton 1918 | |
"Asplenium occidentale" = Osmunda occidentale
"Asplenium occidentale" = Osmunda occidentale Knowlton 1917 | |
Anemia fremonti Knowlton 1917 | |
Tapeinidium ? undulatum Hall 1842 lace fern
Dryopteris coloradensis Knowlton 1917
Dennstaedtia ? fremonti Hall 1843 | |
Equisetum sp. Linnaeus 1753 horsetail | |
Phyllites | |