Where: Greenwood County, Kansas (37.8° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 2.3° N, 25.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Wreford Limestone Formation (Sumner Group), Asselian to Asselian (298.9 - 272.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
• very limited geological information
Primary reference: D. White. 1912. The characters of the fossil plant Gigantopteris Schenk and its occurrence in North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 41:493-516 [H. Sims/S. Ostrowski/A. McGowan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 11161: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 23.07.2001, edited by Heather Lindon
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Pinopsida | |
Peltaspermopsida | |
Schutzia cf. anomala Geinitz 1863 | |
Walchia | |
Sigillariostrobus | |
Rhabdocarpos | |
"Rhabdocarpus sp." = Rhabdocarpos
"Rhabdocarpus sp." = Rhabdocarpos Goeppert and Berger 1848 White reports this as a new species, but does not describe it, nor name a type
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