Beckert Ranch (USNM 14128) (Paleogene of the United States)

Where: Dunn County, North Dakota (47.4° N, 103.0° W: paleocoordinates 51.8° 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"; conglomeratic siltstone

• Dominantly interchannel siltstone (conglomeritic)

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 10983: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 08.07.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
  - Osmundaceae
Osmunda sp. Linnaeus 1753
Angiospermae
 Proteales - Sabiaceae
Meliosma longifolia Hickey 1977
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
Cercidiphyllum genetrix Newberry 1868 katsura
 Ranunculales - Menispermaceae
 Oxalidales - Oxalidaceae
Averrhoites affinis Newberry 1868 wood sorrel
 Fagales - Betulaceae
Corylus acutertiaria n. sp. Hickey 1977 hazel
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood
Viburnum cupanioides
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""Viburnum" cupanioides" = Beringiaphyllum cupanioides
""Viburnum" cupanioides" = Beringiaphyllum cupanioides Manchester et al. 1999