Also known as Kirtland Formation, New Mexico
Where: New Mexico (36.3° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 79.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Kirtland Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: adpression, original carbon
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: C. R. Robison, A. Hunt, and D. L. Wolberg. 1982. New Late Cretaceous leaf locality from lower Kirtland Shale member, Bisti area, San Juan Basin, New Mexico. New Mexico Geology [B. Tiffney/J. Fosdick/O. Alfaro]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 34975: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Julia Fosdick on 21.10.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Sequoia cuneata Newberry 1863 coast redwood | |
Angiospermae | |
Magnolia cordifolia Lesquereux 1869 magnolia | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
Myrtophyllum torreyi Dorf 1942 myrtle | |
Angiospermae | |
Dryophyllum subfalcatum Lesquereux 1875 | |
"Carya antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora
"Carya antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora Newberry 1868 | |
Rhamnus sp. Linnaeus 1753 buckthorn
Zizyphus sp. Miller 1758 buckthorn | |
Leguminosites sp. Bowerbank 1840 legume | |
Cissus marginata Lesquereux 1872 | |
Platanus raynoldsii Newberry 1868 plane tree | |
Polypodiopsida | |
? Woodwardia crenata Knowlton 1900 | |
Asplenium sp. Linnaeus 1753 spleenwort | |
Salvinia sp. Adanson 1763 watermoss | |
Carpites | |