Where: Custer County, Idaho (44.4° N, 114.2° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 53.1° N, 87.7° W (Wright 2013)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Germer Tuffaceous Member (Challis Volcanics Formation), Early/Lower Eocene (56.0 - 48.1 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original carbon
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: D. W. Edelman. 1975. The Eocene Germer Basin Flora of South-Central Idaho. 1-126 [B. Tiffney/J. Fosdick/B. Tiffney]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35338: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Julia Fosdick on 01.12.2003
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
| Polypodiopsida | |
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Equisetum cf. arcticum Heer 1866 horsetail | |
| Pinopsida | |
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Pinus wheeleri Cockerell 1908 pine
Pseudolarix americana conifer | |
| Angiospermae | |
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Sassafras ashleyi sassafras | |
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Cercidiphyllum elongatum Brown 1939 katsura | |
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Ribes sp. Linnaeus 1753 currant | |
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Salix knowltoni willow | |
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Cedrela pteraformis mahogany | |
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Aesculus montanus soapberry | |
| Gymnospermae | |
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Sequoia affinis Lesquereux 1876 coast redwood
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood | |