UCMP 3904, West Branch Creek: Middle Eocene, Oregon
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Angiospermae
- Fagales
- Juglandaceae
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Cruciptera n. gen. simsonii
(Brown 1940)
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Manchester 1991 | |||||||||
| Samara | ||||||||||
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Tetrapteris simsonii n. sp.
Brown 1940
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Brown 1940 | |||||||||
| recombined as Cruciptera simsonii | ||||||||||
| Samara | ||||||||||
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Angiospermae
- Solanales
- Solanaceae
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Florissantia speirii flower
Manchester 1992
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| comb. nov. | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Scarabaeidae
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Oryctoantiquus borealis n. gen., n. sp.
Ratcliffe and Smith 2005
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Ratcliffe et al. 2005 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Oregon | County: | Wheeler |
| Coordinates: | 44.6° North, 120.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 46.1° North, 105.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | unpublished field data | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2-3 | ||
| *Period: | Early/Lower Tertiary | *Epoch: | Middle Eocene |
| Key time interval: | Middle Eocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 47.80000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Clarno |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "siliciclastic" |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,adpression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils,some microfossils |
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,chemical,mechanical,field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | FLMNH,UCMP |
Metadata
| Also known as: | UF 230; USGS 8637 | ||
| Database number: | 31676 | ||
| Authorizer: | H. Wang, K. Volkman, M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Arakaki, M. Clapham, H. Wang, K. Volkman |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleobotany,paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2003-05-22 11:13:00 | Last modified: | 2011-08-01 01:13:46 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-05-22 11:13:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 8537. | S. R. Manchester. 1992. Flowers, fruits, and pollen of Florissantia, an extinct Malvalean genus from the Eocene and Oligocene of western North America. American Journal of Botany 79(9):996-1008 [H. Wang/M. Arakaki/M. Arakaki] |
Secondary references:
| 83141 | R.W. Brown. 1940. New species and changes of name in some American fossil floras. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 30(8):344-356 [K. Volkman/K. Volkman] | |
| 83118 | S. R. Manchester. 1991. Cruciptera, a new Juglandaceous winged fruit from the Eocene and Oligocene of western North America. Systematic Botany 16(4):715-725 [K. Volkman/K. Volkman] | |
| 36841 | B. C. Ratcliffe, D. M. Smith, and D. Erwin. 2005. Oryctoantiquus borealis, new genus and species from the Eocene of Oregon, U.S.A., the world's oldest fossil dynastine and largest fossil scarabaeid (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 59(1):127-135 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |