characterized by Callipteris spp. This underlies a zone containing three contemporaneous
but geographically restricted floras whose provinciality may be due to paleophysiographic or
paleoedaphic features of that region These are the Supaia flora of Arizona and New Mexico,
the Glenopteris flora of Kansas and the Gigantopteris flora of Texas, Oklahoma, and New
Mexico. The third and youngest zone, containing a modified Gigantopteris flora, is known …