Where: Oliver County, North Dakota (47.0° N, 101.6° W: paleocoordinates 51.2° N, 81.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bear Den Member (Golden Valley Formation), Clarkforkian (56.2 - 54.9 Ma)

• Abundant remains of Paleocene fossil plants occurred in the gray zone. A thin lignite is represented by b layer of discoidal siderite concretions.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; concretionary, sideritic, conglomeratic 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 10811: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 25.06.2001

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