Central Pit of Hebron Brick Co. (USNM 14052) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Morton County, North Dakota (47.0° N, 102.0° W: paleocoordinates 50.8° N, 83.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Camels Butte Member (Golden Valley Formation), Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; yellow claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: L. J. Hickey. 1977. Stratigraphy and paleobotany of the Golden Valley Formation (Early Tertiary) of western North Dakota. The Geological Society of America Memoir 150:1-183 [H. Sims/S. Ostrowski/J. Cassara]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10806: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 25.06.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Malvales - Sterculiaceae
Dombeya novimundi Hickey 1977
Lycopodiopsida
 Isoetales - Isoetaceae
Isoetites horridus Dawson 1883 clubmoss
Polypodiopsida
 Salviniales - Polypodiidae
Salvinia preauriculata Berry 1925 watermoss
 Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
"Hemitelia magna" = Asplenium magnum
"Hemitelia magna" = Asplenium magnum Knowlton 1899