Also known as Granite Park
Where: Mojave County, Arizona (35.9° N, 113.3° W: paleocoordinates 0.1° N, 45.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Surprise Canyon Formation, Late/Upper Mississippian to Late/Upper Mississippian (330.9 - 315.2 Ma)
• "section 3, unit 5 of measured section, 18 m above base" of formation
•"Upper Mississippian-Lower Pennsylvanian"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "channel"; lithified siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by S. Beus
• Museum of Northern Arizona collection
Primary reference: W. D. Tidwell, J. R. Jennings, and S. S. Beus. 1992. A Carboniferous flora from the Surprise Canyon Formation in the Grand Canyon, Arizona. Journal of Paleontology 66(6):1013-1021 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 92397: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 09.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cyperites | |
Cyperites sp. Lindley and Hutton 1832 | |
Wardia | |
Wardia sp. White 1904 | |
Knorria | |
Knorria sp. Sternberg 1825 | |
Lepidostrobus cf. ornatus Brongniart 1828 |