KJ9740 (DMNH 2094) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Michael's Noooooooose, KJ9740

Where: Bowman County, North Dakota (46.0° N, 103.8° W: paleocoordinates 52.4° N, 77.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• -10.61m to Hell Creek-Fort Union contact datum, -10.61m 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

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 48183: authorized by Kirk Johnson, entered by Kirk Johnson on 15.03.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Liriodendrites bradacii
Johnson; HC166
Angiospermae
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"Dicotyledonae "HC293"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "HC321"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "HC293"" = Dicotyledoneae
HC293
"Dicotyledonae "HC321"" = Dicotyledoneae
HC321
 Malvales - Tiliaceae
 Rosales - Rhamnaceae
Ziziphus fibrillosus buckthorn
HC174
 Rosales - Ulmaceae
Ulmaceae "HC36" Brisseau-Mirbel 1815 elm
HC36
 Fagales - Nothofagaceae
Dryophyllum subfalcatum Lesquereux 1875
HC49
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
 Laurales -
Laurales "HC163" Jussieu 1820
HC163
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Marmarthia pearsonii Johnson 1996 laurel
Johnson; HC162
Marmarthia trivialis Johnson 1996 laurel
(Lesquereux) Johnson; HC105
 Nymphaeales - Nymphaeaceae
Paranymphaea hastata water lily
HC111
Magnoliopsida
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Quereuxia angulata Newberry 1953
FU2