Sheep Rock Creek Locality: Middle Eocene, Oregon
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Angiospermae
- Solanales
- Solanaceae
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Florissantia ashwillii n. sp.
Manchester 1992
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Oregon |
| Coordinates: | 44.9° North, 120.5° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 46.5° North, 105.5° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2-3 | ||
| *Period: | Early/Lower Tertiary | *Epoch: | Middle Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene |
| Key time interval: | Middle Eocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 47.8 - 37.71 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Clarno |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | conglomerate |
| Secondary lithology: | sandstone |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,adpression |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils,microfossils |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,chemical,mechanical,field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 31681 | ||
| Authorizer: | H. Wang | Enterer: | M. Arakaki |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | paleobotany |
| Created: | 2003-05-22 12:08:27 | Last modified: | 2022-03-08 03:32:27 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-05-22 12:08:27 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 8537. | 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] |