Farmers Butte (USNM 14057) (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Stark County, North Dakota (46.9° N, 102.1° W: paleocoordinates 51.2° N, 82.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bear Den Member (Golden Valley Formation), Clarkforkian (56.8 - 55.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; siltstone and sandstone

• Dominantly interchannel siltstone. Includes sandstone and shale also

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 10808: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 25.06.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Equisetum magnum Hickey 1977 horsetail
lateral axis
Angiospermae
 Oxalidales - Oxalidaceae
Averrhoites affinis Newberry 1868 wood sorrel
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
"Carya antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora
"Carya antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora Newberry 1868
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
Cercidiphyllum genetrix Newberry 1868 katsura
 Proteales - Sabiaceae
Meliosma longifolia Hickey 1977
 Zingiberales - Musaceae
Musophyllum complicatum Lesquereux 1874