Where: Barton County, Kansas (38.5° N, 98.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 61.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dakota Formation, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, gray claystone

Size class: mesofossils

• These fossils occur together with a number of other fossil plant remains

•such as Prisca reproductive axes (Retallack and Dilcher, 1981) and Liriophyllum leaves (Dilcher and Crane, 1984).

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: D. L. Dilcher and W. L. Kovach. 1986. Early Angiosperm Reproduction: Caloda delevoryana gen. et sp. nov., A New Fructification from the Dakota formation (Cenomanian) of Kansas. American Journal of Botany 73(8):1230-1237 [S. Wing/N. Jud]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 121752: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Nathan Jud on 11.12.2011

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