KJ9904 (DMNH 2308) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Dinosaur Nodule

Where: Bowman County, North Dakota (46.0° N, 103.8° W: paleocoordinates 52.2° 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)

• -2.7m to Hell Creek-Fort Union contact datum, -2.7m 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: 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 25913: authorized by Kirk Johnson, entered by Michele Reynolds on 28.09.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Fokieniopsis catenulata
(Bell) McIver & Basinger; HC137
Angiospermae
 Mesangiosperms - Arecaceae
Amesoneuron "FU037" Göppert 1852 palm
Hickey and Read; FU037
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Marmarthia trivialis Johnson 1996 laurel
(Lesquereux) Johnson; HC105
 Proteales - Nelumbonaceae
Nelumbo "FU062" Adanson 1763 lotus
FU062
 Rosales - Ulmaceae
Ulmaceae "HC036" Brisseau-Mirbel 1815 elm
HC036
 Fagales - Nothofagaceae
Dryophyllum tennesseensis Berry 1916
HC044
 Rosids - Moraceae
Artocarpus lessigiana Knowlton mulberry
HC179
Magnoliopsida
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Quereuxia angulata Newberry 1953
FU002