The Bull Mountain locality (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Cecil County, Maryland (39.5° N, 76.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° N, 38.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Palynological Subzone II-C zone, Patapsco Formation (Potomac Group), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray claystone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: adpression, charcoalification, original carbon, original sporopollenin

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: K. R. Pedersen, E. M. Friis, C. R. Crane and A. N. Drinnan. 1994. Reproductive structures of an extinct platanoid from the Early Cretaceous (latest Albian) of eastern North America. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 80:291-303 [H. Wang/H. Wang/H. Wang]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28365: authorized by Hongshan Wang, entered by Hongshan Wang on 10.02.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Hamatia elkneckensis n. gen. n. sp. Pedersen et al. 1994
Platanocarpus elkneckensis n. sp. Pedersen et al. 1994