Byron, northeast (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Houston County, Georgia (32.7° N, 83.7° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 61.6° W)

When: Cuesta Member (Ripley Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: E. W. Berry. 1914. The Upper Cretaceous and Eocene floras of South Carolina and Georgia. US Geological Survey Professional Paper 84:1-200 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 212694: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.08.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxaceae
Cunninghamites elegans Corda 1846 yew
Polypodiopsida
  - Polypodiaceae
Dryopterites stephensoni n. sp. Berry 1914
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Araucaria jeffreyi Berry 1908