Western Tenesse, near Buchanan ( of the United States)
Where: Tennessee (36.4° N, 88.4° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 80.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Tertiary (66.0 - 2.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: deltaic
• Microfossil data suggest that the locality represents a depositional environment with brackish water and thus, that it was relatively close to the Gulf of Mexico (Zavada, in progress).
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: W. L. Crepet and K. C. Nixon. 1989. Earliest megafossil evidence of Fagaceae: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications. American Journal of Botany 76(6):842-855 [H. Wang/M. Arakaki/M. Arakaki]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 31778: authorized by Hongshan Wang, entered by Monica Arakaki on 25.05.2003
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