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 | |
Tempskya sp. Corda 1845 | |
Angiospermae | |
Proteales indet. Jussieu 1829 | |
Magnoliopsida | |
Magnoliopsida indet. Cronquist et al. 1996 |