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
•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 | |
Ginkgoopsida | |
Leptostrobus longifolius Berry 1911 | |
Angiospermae | |
Sapindopsis variabilis Fontaine 1889 soapberry | |
Ficophyllum serratum Fontaine 1889 mulberry | |
Sequoia Reichenbachi Endlicher 1847 coast redwood | |
Pinopsida | |
"Sphenolepidium parceramosum" = Sphenolepis kurriana
"Sphenolepidium parceramosum" = Sphenolepis kurriana Dunker 1846 | |
Sphenolepidium Kurrianum Heer 1881 yew
Geinitzia Jenneyi n. sp. Endlicher 1847 yew | |
"Glyptostrobus brookensis" = Widdringtonites ramosus
"Glyptostrobus brookensis" = Widdringtonites ramosus Fontaine 1889 | |
Pinus susquaensis Dawson 1882 pine | |
Pteropsida | |
Pecopteris Geyleriana Brongniart 1822
Pecopteris borealis Brongniart 1828 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Weichselia reticulata Stokes and Webb 1824 | |
Cladophlebis wyomingensis n. sp.
Cladophlebis wyomingensis n. sp. Fontaine 1899 |