Lower Frontier (11a) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Lincoln County, Wyoming (41.6° N, 110.5° W: paleocoordinates 42.6° N, 71.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Frontier Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• localities are from about 1,200 ft below Oyster Ridge Sandstone

Environment/lithology: deltaic; poorly lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, original carbon

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: D. R. Crabtree. 1987. Angiosperms of the Northern Rocky Mountains: Albian to Campanian (Cretaceous) megafossil floras. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 74:707-747 [B. Tiffney/J. Fosdick/J. Fosdick]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31187: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Julia Fosdick on 19.04.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Dewalquea
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Dewalquea pulchella Knowlton 1917
Phyllites
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Phyllites sp. Brongniart 1822
Phyllites dentata Knowlton 1917
Angiospermae
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Cinnamomum sp. Schaeffer 1760 cinnamon
Cinnamomum hesperium Knowlton 1917 cinnamon
 Apiales - Araliaceae
Aralia veatchii Knowlton 1917 spikenard
 Proteales - Proteaceae
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
Salix cumberlandensis Knowlton 1917 willow
 Fagales - Fagaceae
 Fagales - Myricaceae
Myrica nervosa Knowlton 1917 bayberry
 Crossosomatales - Staphyleaceae
 Rosids - Moraceae
Ficus Fremontii Linnaeus 1753 fig
Ficus sp. Linnaeus 1753 fig