Where: Ellsworth County, Kansas (38.7° N, 98.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 58.6° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Terra Cotta Clay Member (Dakota Formation), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; lithified, silty, sandy claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by Dilcher et al.; reposited in the FLMNH
Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: D. L. Dilcher and H. Wang. 2009. An Early Cretaceous fruit with affinities to Ceratophyllaceae. American Journal of Botany 96(12):2256-2269 [H. Wang/H. Wang]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 138374: authorized by Hongshan Wang, entered by Hongshan Wang on 16.01.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
Donlesia dakotensis Dilcher and Wang 2009 hornwort |