2218 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Kiowa County, Kansas (37.5° N, 99.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 57.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Cheyenne Sandstone Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; massive sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Ward and Gould in 1897; reposited in the USNM

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 102716: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Nathan Jud on 19.01.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
 Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
Asplenium dicksonianum Heer 1874 spleenwort
Angiospermae
 Sapindales - Sapindaceae
Sapindopsis brevifolia Fontaine 1889 soapberry
 Bennettitales -
Cycadeospermum lineatum Lesquereux 1891
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Sequoia condita Lesquereux 1875 coast redwood
 Coniferales -