Also known as Wheeler High School, Dugout Gulch, Knox Ranch, Allen Ranch, Gray Ranch, Lost Creek Reservoir

Where: Oregon (44.4° N, 119.0° W: paleocoordinates 44.1° N, 108.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Big Basin Member (John Day Formation), Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; tuffaceous shale

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collection methods: quarrying, chemical, mechanical,

Primary reference: S. R. Manchester. 1992. Flowers, fruits, and pollen of Florissantia, an extinct Malvalean genus from the Eocene and Oligocene of western North America. American Journal of Botany 79(9):996-1008 [H. Wang/M. Arakaki/M. Arakaki]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31675: authorized by Hongshan Wang, entered by Monica Arakaki on 22.05.2003, edited by Nicholas Famoso

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