KJ9249 CENSUS (DMNH l.561) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Pretty Butte N

Where: Slope County, North Dakota (46.4° N, 104.0° W: paleocoordinates 52.6° N, 77.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: HCIII zone, Hell Creek Formation, Lancian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• -1.8m to Hell Creek-Fort Union contact datum, -4.285m to K-T boundary based on calculations in Johnson (2002)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; poorly lithified siltstone

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 25910: authorized by Kirk Johnson, entered by Michele Reynolds on 28.09.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanites marginata Lesquereux 1872
HC001-006
 Mesangiosperms - Arecaceae
Amesoneuron "FU037" Göppert 1852 palm
Hickey and Read; FU037
 Magnoliid - Magnoliidae
"Magnoliidae "HC043"" = Magnoliid
"Magnoliidae "HC043"" = Magnoliid Jud 2011
HC043
 Laurales -
Laurales "HC292" Jussieu 1820
HC292
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Marmarthia pearsonii Johnson 1996 laurel
Johnson; HC162
Marmarthia trivialis Johnson 1996 laurel
(Lesquereux) Johnson; HC105
 Rosales - Rhamnaceae
Rhamnaceae "HC261" Jussieu 1789 buckthorn
HC261
Rhamnus cleburni Lesquereux 1872 buckthorn
HC062
 Fagales - Nothofagaceae
Dryophyllum subfalcatum Lesquereux 1875
HC049
 Rosids - Moraceae
Artocarpus lessigiana Knowlton mulberry
HC179
 Nymphaeales - Nymphaeaceae
Paranymphaea hastata water lily
HC111