Moab airport locality (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Utah (38.7° N, 109.7° W: paleocoordinates 38.8° N, 60.3° W)

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• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cedar Mountain Formation (Dakota Group), Early/Lower Cretaceous (145.0 - 100.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; argillaceous siltstone and sandy shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: 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 121695: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Nathan Jud on 10.12.2011

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Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
  - Tempskyaceae
Tempskya spp. Corda 1845