KJ8403 CENSUS (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Slope County, North Dakota (46.5° N, 103.9° W: paleocoordinates 52.7° N, 77.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: FUI zone, Ludlow Member (Fort Union Formation), Lancian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• 50m to Hell Creek-Fort Union contact datum, 50m to K-T boundary based on calculations in Johnson (2002)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; poorly lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, original carbon

Collection methods: bulk, 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 25059: authorized by Kirk Johnson, entered by Michele Reynolds on 27.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Dicotyledoneae
 Rosidae - Rosidae
Rosidae "FU023" Takhtajan 1967
FU023
Angiospermae
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanus raynoldsii Newberry 1868 plane tree
FU016
 Ranunculales - Menispermaceae
Cocculus flabella Wolfe 1966
FU043
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Glyptostrobus europaeus Brongniart 1833 Chinese swamp cypress
FU004
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood
FU003