West Brothers locality (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Prince Georges County, Maryland (38.9° N, 76.9° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° N, 39.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

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

Environment/lithology: fluvial

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: adpression, charcoalification, original carbon, original sporopollenin

Collection methods: bulk, sieve

Primary reference: E. M. Friis, P. R. Crane, and K. R. Pedersen. 1988. Reproductive structures of Cretaceous Platanaceae. Biologiske Skrifter Det Kongelige Danske Videnskskabernes Selskab 31:1-55 [H. Wang/H. Wang/H. Wang]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28408: authorized by Hongshan Wang, entered by Hongshan Wang on 12.02.2003, edited by Monica Arakaki

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Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanocarpus marylandensis n. gen. n. sp. Friis et al. 1988
 Buxales -
Magnoliopsida
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