Where: Stark County, North Dakota (45.5° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 49.6° N, 85.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• The exposed section of White Butte begins just below the HS layer of Jepsen elevation of the HS layer abote the level of the Taylor bed-Alamo Bluff lignite was determined to be approximately 12m.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; poorly lithified, yellow siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, 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 10802: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 25.06.2001, edited by Jason Cassara and Scott Wing

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