Fort Union Formation
894 distinct taxa, from 7,545 fossil occurrences the Paleobiology Database records under this name.
The Paleobiology Database files this name in 2 countries. That can be one body of rock crossing a border, or two rocks that happen to share a name. The database does not say which, so nothing below is added across them.
Wyoming, North Dakota, Montana, Colorado · US
889 taxa · 7,538 fossils · 101–23 MyaMembers recorded: Tongue River, Ludlow, Tullock, Lebo, Shotgun, Sentinel Butte, Overland, Ekalaka, Atwell Gulch, lower Ludlow, China Butte, Somber beds.
Macrostrat places this rock in the Powder River Group. Macrostrat’s own record
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258 distinct localities, where the rock is now rather than where it was laid down. Tectonics draws the world it belonged to.
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- Dicotyledoneae
- Triporopollenites
- Laevigatosporites
- Ampelopsis acerifolia
- Momipites wyomingensis
- Metasequoia occidentalis
- Caryapollenites imparalis
- Caryapollenites veripites
- Stereisporites
- Albertipollenites anguloluminosus
- Gleicheniidites
- Platanus raynoldsii
- Glyptostrobus europaeus
- Alnipollenites verus
- Leiotriletes
- Momipites ventifluminis
- Corylites
- Azolla
- Hicoria antiquora
- Cupuliferoipollenites
- Ectocion osbornianus
- Persites argutus
- Cercidiphyllum genetrix
- Caryapollenites wodehousei
- Cercidiphyllum
- Cornophyllum
- Paranymphaea crassifolia
- Cycadopites
- Eucommia
- Populus nebrascensis
- Tricolpites
- Liliacidites
- Phenacodus grangeri
- Caryapollenites inelegans
- Classopollis
- Dicotylophyllum anomalum
- Averrhoites affinis
- Pityosporites
- Cornus hyperborea
- Cyathidites
The 40 most often recorded, of 889.
Saskatchewan · CA
6 taxa · 7 fossils · 66–56 MyaMacrostrat places this rock in the Powder River Group. Macrostrat’s own record
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1 distinct localities, where the rock is now rather than where it was laid down. Tectonics draws the world it belonged to.
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Counts are of occurrence records, which measure the rock and the fieldwork together.