USGS locality 7371, 3 miles west of south of Farmington: Early Eocene, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae - Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanus raynoldsi leaf Newberry 1868
Angiospermae - Moraceae
Ficus planicostata leaf Lesquereux 1872
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Mexico
Coordinates: 36.7° North, 108.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.6° North, 83.9° West (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Ypresian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2
Key time interval: Early Eocene
Age range of interval: 56 - 48.07 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Wasatch
Stratigraphy comments: Horizon about 200 feet above the top of Bauer's "Basal Wasatch Conglomerate Sandstone"
"San Jose Basin"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Collection method comments: Collected by Harvey Bassler and J.B. Reeside, Jr. on July 16, 1917
Taxonomic list comments:Species lists for Brown 1962 were compiled from the publication and provided for the Paleobiology Database by Drs. Steven R. Manchester and Peter R. Crane.
Metadata
Database number:53161
Authorizer:P. Wilf Enterer:J. Sessa
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:paleobotany
Created:2005-09-06 21:10:32 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2005-09-06 21:10:32
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
10820. R. W. Brown. 1962. Paleocene flora of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 375:1-119 [P. Wilf/J. Sessa/M. Uhen]