Where: Slope County, North Dakota (46.4° N, 104.0° W: paleocoordinates 52.1° N, 79.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ludlow Member (Fort Union Formation), Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 61.7 Ma)
Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Primary reference: P. Wilf, C. C. Labandeira, K. R. Johnson and B. Ellis. 2006. Decoupled plant and insect diversity after the end-Cretaceous extinction. Science 313:1112-1115 [P. Wilf/P. Wilf]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 129230: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Mike Donovan on 22.06.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
Paranymphaea crassifolia Newberry 1935 water lily | |
Platanaceae "HC140" Lestiboudois 1826
Platanaceae "FU063" Lestiboudois 1826
Platanus raynoldsi Newberry 1868 plane tree | |
"Nelumbium montanum" = Nelumbago montanum
"Nelumbium montanum" = Nelumbago montanum Brown 1962 lotus | |
Flacourtiaceae "FU049" Richard and Candolle 1824
Flacourtiaceae "FU074" Richard and Candolle 1824 | |
"Populus" nebrascensis Newberry 1868 poplar | |
Penosphyllum cordatum Ward 1885 | |
"Dicotyledonae "FU065"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "FU035"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "FU060"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "FU094"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "FU072"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "FU040"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "FU073"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "FU070"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "FU069"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "FU064"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "FU039"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "FU065"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "FU035"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "FU060"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "FU094"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "FU072"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "FU040"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "FU073"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "FU070"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "FU069"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "FU064"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "FU039"" = Dicotyledoneae | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
Browniea serrata | |
Browniea serrata Manchester and Hickey 2007 |