Antelope Creek (USNM 14068) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Stark County, North Dakota (46.8° N, 102.8° W: paleocoordinates 50.7° N, 84.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; shale

• Dominantly interchannel shale, pale

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 10966: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 08.07.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
"Carya antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora
"Carya antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora Newberry 1868
 Oxalidales - Oxalidaceae
Averrhoites affinis Newberry 1868 wood sorrel
 Dipsacales - Caprifoliaceae
"Viburnum" antiquum Newberry 1868 honeysuckle
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Persites argutus Hickey 1977 laurel
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood