Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.7° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 89.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Nacimiento Formation, Paleocene (65.5 - 55.8 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: original carbon
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: E. A. Wheeler, J. McClammer, and C.A. LaPasha. 1995. Similarities and differences in dicotyledonous woods of the Cretaceous and Paleocene. San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA. International Association of Wood Anatomists Journal 16(3):223-254 [B. Tiffney/J. Fosdick/J. Fosdick] more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 31196: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Julia Fosdick on 22.04.2003