White Earth River (USNM 14115) (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Mountrail County, North Dakota (48.5° N, 102.7° W: paleocoordinates 52.9° N, 82.2° 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"; conglomeratic shale and sandstone

• Dominantly interchannel shale (conglomeritic) and sandstone

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 10977: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 08.07.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood