Westwater locality (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Utah (39.2° N, 109.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.8° N, 69.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Naturita Formation, Late/Upper Albian to Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 93.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; tuffaceous ash and subbituminous coal

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, permineralized

Primary reference: W. D. Tidwell and N. Hebbert. 1992. Species of the Cretaceous tree fern Tempskya from Utah. International Journal of Plant Sciences 153(3):513-528 [S. Wing/N. Jud]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 121694: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Nathan Jud on 10.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
Matonidium sp. Schenk 1871
  - Gleicheniaceae
Gleichenia sp. Smith 1793
  - Tempskyaceae
Tempskya sp. Corda 1845