Barrett #7 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Black Hills

Where: Crook County, Wyoming (44.7° N, 104.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 53.0° W)

When: Cretaceous Formation, Early/Lower Cretaceous (145.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• Due to its late 19th century date of publication, the "Cretaceous Formation" is the highest stratigraphic resolution for this collection.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine

• "soft sandstones, clay shales, and clays, light-gray, yellow, and shades of purplish red."

•Due to its late 19th century date of publication, the "Cretaceous Formation" is the highest stratigraphic resolution for this collection.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, original carbon

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: L.F. Ward. 1899. The Cretaceous formation of the Black Hills as as indicated by the fossil plants. Cretaceous Formation of the Black Hills [B. Tiffney/J. Fosdick/B. Tiffney]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34865: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Julia Fosdick on 08.10.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Ginkgoopsida
 Czekanowskiales -
Angiospermae
 Sapindales - Sapindaceae
Sapindopsis variabilis Fontaine 1889 soapberry
 Rosids - Moraceae
Ficophyllum serratum Fontaine 1889 mulberry
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Sequoia Reichenbachi Endlicher 1847 coast redwood
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxodiaceae
"Sphenolepidium parceramosum" = Sphenolepis kurriana
"Sphenolepidium parceramosum" = Sphenolepis kurriana Dunker 1846
 Pinales - Taxaceae
Geinitzia Jenneyi n. sp. Endlicher 1847 yew
 Pinales -
"Glyptostrobus brookensis" = Widdringtonites ramosus
"Glyptostrobus brookensis" = Widdringtonites ramosus Fontaine 1889
 Pinales - Pinaceae
Pinus susquaensis Dawson 1882 pine
Pteropsida
 Filicinae -
Pecopteris Geyleriana Brongniart 1822
Pecopteris borealis Brongniart 1828
Polypodiopsida
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
Weichselia reticulata Stokes and Webb 1824
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Cladophlebis wyomingensis n. sp. Fontaine 1899