Goodman Creek Bluffs (USNM 14059) (Paleogene of the United States)

Where: Mercer County, North Dakota (47.3° N, 102.1° W: paleocoordinates 51.6° N, 81.9° 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

• dominantly interchannel siltstone; Some sandstone 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 10810: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 25.06.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Sapindales - Burseraceae
Canariophyllum ampla n. gen. n. sp.
Canariophyllum ampla n. gen. n. sp. Hickey 1977
 Fagales - Betulaceae
Corylus acutertiaria Hickey 1977 hazel
 Oxalidales - Oxalidaceae
Averrhoites affinis Newberry 1868 wood sorrel
 Vitales - Vitaceae
 Proteales - Sabiaceae
Meliosma longifolia Hickey 1977
 Dipsacales - Caprifoliaceae
"Viburnum" antiquum Newberry 1868 honeysuckle
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Persites argutus Hickey 1977 laurel
 Mesangiosperms - Araceae
Porosia verrucosa Lesquereux 1878
Dicotyledoneae
 Myrtales - Trapaceae
"Trapa" angulata Brown 1962 water caltrop
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Glyptostrobus europaeus Brongniart 1833 Chinese swamp cypress
taxodioid foliage
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood
Magnoliopsida
  -
Protophyllum
  -
Polypodiopsida
  - Osmundaceae
Osmunda macrophylla Penhallow 1908
pinnule, pinna fragment
Viburnum cupanioides
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""Viburnum" cupanioides" = Beringiaphyllum cupanioides
""Viburnum" cupanioides" = Beringiaphyllum cupanioides Manchester et al. 1999