2224 Near Medicine Lodge River: Albian, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polypodiopsida - Polypodiales - Aspleniaceae
Asplenium dicksonianum leaf Heer 1874
Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Sequoia condita axis Lesquereux 1875
Bennettitales
Cycadeospermum lineatum Lesquereux 1891
Angiospermae
Araliopsoides cretacea leaf (Newberry 1863)
4 specimens
Angiospermae - Laurales - Lauraceae
Sassafras mudgii leaf Lesquereux 1868
Angiospermae - Apiales - Araliaceae
Aralia newberryi leaf Berry 1907
3 specimens
Angiospermae - Malvales - Malvaceae
Sterculia towneri leaf
Sterculia mucronata leaf Lesquereux 1891
2 specimens
Angiospermae - Sapindales - Sapindaceae
Sapindopsis belviderensis leaf
Sapindopsis brevifolia leaf Fontaine 1889
Sapindopsis magnifolia leaf Fontaine 1889
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:Kiowa
Coordinates: 37.5° North, 99.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.1° North, 57.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Albian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 4
Key time interval:Albian
Age range of interval:113.00000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cheyenne Sandstone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:102722
Authorizer:S. Wing Enterer:N. Jud
Research group:paleobotany
Created:2011-01-19 11:06:24 Last modified:2011-01-18 18:06:24
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-01-19 11:06:24
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
34804. E. W. Berry. 1922. The flora of the Cheyenne Sandstone of Kansas. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 129(1):199-231 [S. Wing/N. Jud]