Where: Henry County, Tennessee (36.5° N, 88.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 77.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Claiborne Formation, Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: D. L. Dilcher and B. Mehrotra. 1969. A study of leaf compressions of Knightiophyllum from Eocene deposits of southeastern North America. American Journal of Botany 56(8):936-943 [H. Wang/M. Arakaki/M. Arakaki]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31696: authorized by Hongshan Wang, entered by Monica Arakaki on 22.05.2003

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