P3858 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Lance Formation, Wyoming

Where: Niobrara County, Wyoming (43.2° N, 104.6° W: paleocoordinates 49.6° N, 79.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lance Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, concretionary, gray siltstone and lithified, gray, sandy shale

• "large dull-gray siltstone concretions embedded in beds of lighter-gray, sandy shales"

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, original carbon

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: E. Dorf. 1942. Upper Cretaceous floras of the Rocky Mountain region; Flora of the Lance Formation at its type locality, Niobrara County, Wyoming. Contributions to Palaeontology [B. Tiffney/J. Fosdick/J. Fosdick]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34970: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Julia Fosdick on 21.10.2003

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Taxonomic list

Asplenites
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Phyllites
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Phyllites sp. Brongniart 1822
Filicites
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Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Equisetum sp. Linnaeus 1753 horsetail
  - Blechnaceae
? Woodwardia crenata Knowlton 1900
Angiospermae
 Mesangiosperms - Araceae
Pistia corrugata Lesquereux 1874 water cabbage
 Poales - Typhaceae
Typha sp. Linnaeus 1753 bulrush
 Laurales - Lauraceae
 Ranunculales - Menispermaceae
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
 Lamiales - Oleaceae
 Vitales - Vitaceae
Vitis stantoni grapevine
 Fagales - Fagaceae
 Fagales - Nothofagaceae
Dryophyllum subfalcatum Lesquereux 1875
Dicotyledoneae
 Myrtales - Trapaceae
? Trapa microphylla Lesquereux 1875 water caltrop