Southeast of Grassy Butte (USNM 14108) (Paleogene of the United States)

Where: McKenzie County, North Dakota (47.4° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 51.9° N, 83.1° 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 sandstone

• Dominantly interchannel siltstone, sandstone

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 10984: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 08.07.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Metasequoia occidentalis
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood
Angiospermae
 Dipsacales - Caprifoliaceae
"Viburnum" antiquum
"Viburnum" antiquum Newberry 1868 honeysuckle
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
Cercidiphyllum genetrix
Cercidiphyllum genetrix Newberry 1868 katsura