KJ88120 CENSUS (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Slope County, North Dakota (46.3° N, 103.9° W: paleocoordinates 52.5° N, 77.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• 19.1m to Hell Creek-Fort Union contact datum, 18.35m to K-T boundary based on calculations in Johnson (2002)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; poorly lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

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 25498: authorized by Kirk Johnson, entered by Michele Reynolds on 13.09.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
Populus nebrascensis Newberry 1868 poplar
FU007
 Vitales - Vitaceae
Ampelopsis acerifolia Newberry 1868
FU076
 Nymphaeales - Nymphaeaceae
Paranymphaea crassifolia Newberry 1935 water lily
FU001
 Cornales - Cornaceae
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanus raynoldsii Newberry 1868 plane tree
FU016
Magnoliopsida
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Dicotylophyllum anomalum Ward 1887
FU029