KJ86113 (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Slope County, North Dakota (46.4° N, 103.9° W: paleocoordinates 52.3° N, 79.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: FUI zone, Ludlow Member (Fort Union Formation), Puercan (66.0 - 63.3 Ma)

• 30m to Hell Creek-Fort Union contact datum, 30m to K-T boundary based on calculations in Johnson (2002)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; poorly lithified, concretionary marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Specimens located at Yale Peabody Museum

Primary reference: K. R. Johnson. 2002. Megaflora of the Hell Creek and lower Fort Union Formations in the western Dakotas: Vegetational response to climate change, the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary event, and rapid marine transgression. The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the northern Great Plains: An integrated continental record of the end of the Cretaceous. 361:329-391 [S. Wing/S. Wing/K. Johnson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 25010: authorized by Kirk Johnson, entered by Michele Reynolds on 25.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
Populus nebrascensis Newberry 1868 poplar
FU007
 Violales - Flacourtiaceae
Flacourtiaceae "FU049" Richard and Candolle 1824
FU049
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
Cercidiphyllum genetrix Newberry 1868 katsura
Hickey; FU005
 Ranunculales - Menispermaceae
Cocculus flabella Wolfe 1966
FU043
Magnoliopsida
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Dicotylophyllum anomalum Ward 1887
FU029