Tempskya locality 3 (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Utah (39.0° N, 111.0° W: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 68.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cedar Mountain Formation (Dakota Group), Early/Lower Albian to Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 99.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

• Omithischia spp crocodilians, and fish, at least two different types of dinosaur egg shells (Tidwell et al. 1983), lizard teeth, turtle carapace fragments and several mammal teeth

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 121692: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Nathan Jud on 10.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
  - Tempskyaceae
Tempskya sp. Corda 1845
Angiospermae
 Proteales -
Proteales indet. Jussieu 1829
Magnoliopsida
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Magnoliopsida indet. Cronquist et al. 1996