Hunter Wash (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

• "environment of deposition was a meandering stream that periodically flooded interchannel areas."
• "channel sandstones and overbank deposits consisting of carbonaceous and noncarbonaceous mudstones and siltstones."

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
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Polypodiopsida
  - Blechnaceae
? Woodwardia crenata Knowlton 1900
 Salviniales - Polypodiidae
Salvinia sp. Adanson 1763 watermoss
 Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
Asplenium sp. Linnaeus 1753
Angiospermae
 Laurales - Lauraceae
 Dilleniales - Dilleniaceae
 Ranunculales - Menispermaceae
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanus raynoldsii Newberry 1868 plane tree
 Magnoliales - Magnoliaceae
Magnolia cordifolia Lesquereux 1869 magnolia
 Rosales - Rhamnaceae
Zizyphus sp. Miller 1758 buckthorn
Rhamnus sp. Linnaeus 1753 buckthorn
 Fabales - Fabaceae
Leguminosites sp. Bowerbank 1840 legume
 Fagales - Nothofagaceae
Dryophyllum subfalcatum Lesquereux 1875
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
"Carya antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora
"Carya antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora Newberry 1868
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
Salix sp. 1 Linnaeus 1753 willow
Salix sp. 2 Linnaeus 1753 willow
 Vitales - Vitaceae
Cissus marginata Lesquereux 1872
 Rosids - Moraceae
Ficus crossii Ward 1885 fig
Ficus planicostata Lesquereux 1872 fig
Ficus baueri Knowlton 1916 fig
Dicotyledoneae
 Myrtales - Myrtaceae
Myrtophyllum torreyi Dorf 1942 myrtle
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Sequoia cuneata Newberry 1863 coast redwood
Carpites
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Carpites sp. Schimper 1874
Carpites baueri Knowlton 1916