OK Creek Section, sample D6761-F (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Sheridan County, Wyoming (44.6° N, 106.2° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 51.8° N, 78.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Wasatch Formation, Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Top of Felix coal (major coal bed).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coal

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collected by USGS, Denver, Colorado

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, hydrochloric, hydroflouric

• All slides are held in the Denver laboratory of the U.S. Geological Survey.

Primary reference: D. Pocknall. 1986. Palynological data from the Fort Union and Wasatch formations, Powder River basin, Wyoming and Montana. Open-File Report (86-117)more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 236618: authorized by Phillip Jardine, entered by Hannah Morck on 16.10.2024

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Angiospermae
 Fagales - Betulaceae
Alnipollenites verus Potonie 1931 birch
 Gunnerales -
 Proteales - Proteaceae
Triporopollenites spp. Pflug and Thomson 1953
Magnoliopsida
  -
Malvacipollis spp., "Tricolpites anguloluminosus" = Albertipollenites anguloluminosus
Malvacipollis spp. Harris 1965
"Tricolpites anguloluminosus" = Albertipollenites anguloluminosus Archangelsky 1973
Polypodiopsida
  - Polypodiaceae
Pteridopsida
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Leiotriletes spp. Potonie and Kremp 1954