Also known as Butler

Where: Bastrop County, Texas (30.3° N, 97.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 83.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Butler Clay Member (Rockdale Formation), Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• thought to be "lower Eocene" but possibly late Paleocene because the member straddles the epoch boundary

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified sandstone and lithified claystone

Size class: macrofossils

• "Leaves, twigs and stems are very common at the locality; fruits are rarely found"

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: R. S. Irving and T. F. Stuessy. 1971. A new paratropical angiosperm florule in the Eocene Rockdale Formation of Bastrop County, Texas. Southwestern Naturalist 16(1):111-116 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 98211: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 23.09.2010

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