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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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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Polypodiopsida | |
Tempskya spp. Corda 1845 |