Millerocaulis near Ono (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: California (40.5° N, 122.6° W: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 72.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Chickabally Member (Budden Canyon Formation), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• upper part of member

Environment/lithology: fluvial; mudstone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: permineralized, replaced with calcite

Reposited in the CAS

Primary reference: R. A. Stockey and S. Y. Smith. 2000. A new species of Millerocaulis (Osmundaceae) from the Lower Cretaceous of California. International Journal of Plant Sciences 161(1):159-166 [S. Wing/N. Jud]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 125180: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Nathan Jud on 06.03.2012

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Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
  - Osmundaceae
Millerocaulis embreei n. sp. Stockey and Smith 2000