South Central Fairy Dells (USNM 14089) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Dunn County, North Dakota (47.0° N, 102.7° W: paleocoordinates 50.9° N, 84.3° 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"; siltstone and shale

• Dominantly interchannel silstone and shale; with lignite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

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 10972: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 08.07.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Proteales - Nelumbonaceae
Nelumbo aureavallis n. sp. Hickey 1977 lotus