2224 Near Medicine Lodge River (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Kiowa County, Kansas (37.5° N, 99.1° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 43.5° N, 49.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Cheyenne Sandstone Formation, Albian (113.2 - 100.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: E. W. Berry. 1922. The flora of the Cheyenne Sandstone of Kansas. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 129(1):199-231 [S. Wing/N. Jud]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 102722: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Nathan Jud on 19.01.2011

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
 Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
Asplenium dicksonianum Heer 1874 spleenwort
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Sequoia condita Lesquereux 1875 coast redwood
 Bennettitales -
Cycadeospermum lineatum Lesquereux 1891
Dicotyledoneae
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Araliopsoides cretacea Newberry 1863
Angiospermae
 Apiales - Araliaceae
Aralia newberryi Berry 1907 spikenard
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Sassafras mudgii Lesquereux 1868 sassafras
 Sapindales - Sapindaceae
Sapindopsis brevifolia Fontaine 1889 soapberry
Sapindopsis magnifolia Fontaine 1889 soapberry
 Malvales - Malvaceae
Sterculia towneri tropical chestnut
Sterculia mucronata Lesquereux 1891 tropical chestnut