KJ9316 CENSUS (DMNH l.898) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Pretty Ridge Paleocene; KJ9755, KJ9820, KJ9821

Where: Slope County, North Dakota (46.4° N, 104.0° W: paleocoordinates 52.6° N, 77.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• 8.2m to Hell Creek-Fort Union contact datum, 7.24m 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

Reposited in the DMNH

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

• Specimens located at Denver Museum of Nature & Science

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 25445: authorized by Kirk Johnson, entered by Michele Reynolds on 12.09.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Malvales - Sterculiaceae
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
Populus nebrascensis Newberry 1868 poplar
FU007
 Nymphaeales - Nymphaeaceae
Paranymphaea crassifolia Newberry 1935 water lily
(Newberry) Berry; FU001
 Cornales - Cornaceae
Cornophyllum newberryi
(Hollick) McIver and Basinger; FU031
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanus raynoldsii Newberry 1868 plane tree
FU016
Magnoliopsida
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Dicotylophyllum anomalum Ward 1887
FU029