Broken Hill Flora (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: Kings County, California (36.0° N, 120.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 118.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cascajo Member (San Joaquin Formation), Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial

• "coarse, cross-bedded, blue-gray sandstone, with thin beds of silty sandstone and silstone."

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, original carbon

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: D.I. Axelrod. 1980. Contributions to the Neogene Paleobotany of Central California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 121:3-212 [B. Tiffney/J. Fosdick/J. Fosdick]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35272: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Julia Fosdick on 21.11.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Angiospermae
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanus paucidentata
Platanus paucidentata Dorf 1930 plane tree
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Persea coalingensis, Umbellularia salicifolia
Umbellularia salicifolia Lesquereux 1883 laurel
 Magnoliales - Magnoliaceae
Magnolia corrallina
 Rosales - Ulmaceae
Ulmus affinis, Celtis kansana
Ulmus affinis Lesquereux 1878 elm
Celtis kansana Chaney and Elias 1936 hackberry
 Fabales - Fabaceae
Amorpha oklahomensis
 Fagales - Betulaceae
Alnus corrallina
Alnus corrallina Lesquereux 1883 alder
 Fagales - Fagaceae
Lithocarpus klamathensis, Quercus remingtonii, Quercus pliopalmerii, Quercus douglasoides, Quercus lakevillensis, Quercus wislizenoides
Quercus wislizenoides Axelrod 1944 oak
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
Salix laevigatoides, Salix wildcatensis, Salix hesperia, Salix edenensis, Populus garberii, Populus alexanderii, Populus coalingensis
 Sapindales - Sapindaceae
Sapindus oklahomensis
Sapindus oklahomensis Berry 1918 soapnut