West of Crooked Creek (USNM 14124) (Paleogene of the United States)

Where: Dunn County, North Dakota (47.1° N, 103.0° W: paleocoordinates 51.5° N, 82.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bear Den Member (Golden Valley Formation), Clarkforkian (56.2 - 54.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; siltstone and shale

• Dominanlty interchannel siltstone and shale

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 10982: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 08.07.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Equisetum magnum Hickey 1977 horsetail
Angiospermae
 Proteales - Sabiaceae
Meliosma longifolia Hickey 1977
 Oxalidales - Oxalidaceae
Averrhoites affinis Newberry 1868 wood sorrel