Also known as Steph's Scorpion

Where: Slope County, North Dakota (46.5° N, 104.0° W: paleocoordinates 52.7° N, 77.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: FU0 zone, Ludlow Member (Fort Union Formation), Lancian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• 0.56m to Hell Creek-Fort Union contact datum, -1.43m to K-T boundary based on calculations in Johnson (2002)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; poorly lithified, carbonaceous siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the DMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, 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 25473: authorized by Kirk Johnson, entered by Michele Reynolds on 12.09.2002

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