Where: Mountrail County, North Dakota (48.1° N, 102.5° W: paleocoordinates 52.5° N, 82.1° 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 siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
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 10978: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 08.07.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
Averrhoites affinis Newberry 1868 wood sorrel |