Where: Chatham County, North Carolina (35.5° N, 79.4° W: paleocoordinates 0.5° N, 17.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pekin Formation (Chatham Group), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: mechanical,
• subcollection of Hope and Patterson (1969) renaming of some fossils
Primary reference: T. Delevoryas and R. C. Hope. 1971. A new Triassic cycad and its phyletic implications. Postilla (150)1-21 [A. Rees/D. Sunderlin/D. Sunderlin]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 24554: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 09.08.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cycadopsida | |
Pseudoctenis sp. Seward 1911 cycads | |
Leptocycas gracilis n. gen. n. sp.
Leptocycas gracilis n. gen. n. sp. Delevoryas and Hope 1971 cycads |