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Fall River Sandstone, USA

FormationFall River Sandstone
Age:109 - 100 Ma
Cretaceous
IntervalMiddle Albian - Late Albian
Lithologysandstone, coal
Number of Collections3
Number of Occurrences8

Recorded Sample Locations

LocationRegionStratigraphic Name
Fall River Crook County, Wyoming, USAFall River Sandstone
Fall River Sandstone equivalentSioux County, Nebraska, USAFall River Sandstone

Recorded Fossils

Accepted NameHierarchyAge
Perotriletes striatus
species
7Perotriletes : Perotriletes striatus113 - 100.5 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Sterculia mucronata
species
7Plantae : Spermatophyta : Magnoliopsida : Sterculia : Sterculia mucronata109 - 99.6 Ma
Cretaceous
Sapindopsis sp.
genus
6Plantae : Tracheophyta : Magnoliopsida : Sapindales : Sapindaceae : Sapindopsis109 - 99.6 Ma
Cretaceous
Platanophyllum sp.
genus
6Plantae : Tracheophyta : Magnoliopsida : Proteales : Platanaceae : Platanophyllum109 - 99.6 Ma
Cretaceous
Minerisporites sp.
genus
6Plantae : Tracheophyta : Lycopodiopsida : Isoetales : Minerisporites113 - 100.5 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Arcellites sp.
genus
6Plantae : Arcellites113 - 100.5 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

References

Ellis C. H., Tschudy R. H. (1964) The Cretaceous megaspore genus Arcellites Miner, Micropaleontology 10 1, 73-79
Tschudy R. H. (1976) Stratigraphic Distribution of Species of the Megaspore Genus Minerisporites in North America, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 743-E, E1-E11
Crabtree D. R. (1987) Angiosperms of the Northern Rocky Mountains: Albian to Campanian (Cretaceous) megafossil floras, Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 74, 707-747
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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