Also known as Cheyenne Sandstone, Belvidere

Where: Kiowa County, Kansas (37.5° N, 99.1° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 43.5° N, 49.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cheyenne Sandstone Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; lithified, brown mudstone and lithified, brown shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, original carbon

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Recollection in same area as Cheyenne Formation collections by E. W. Berry, 1922. The Flora of the Cheyenne Sandstone of Kansas. U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper #129: 199-224.

Primary reference: Q. C. Huang and D. L. Dilcher. 1994. Evolutionary and Paleoecological Implications of Fossil Plants from the Lower Cretaceous Cheyenne Sandstone of the Western Interior. Geological Society of America Special Paper 287:129-144 [B. Tiffney/B. Tiffney/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 29018: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Bruce Tiffney on 13.03.2003

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