KJ9611 (DMNH 1782) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as The X-Butte, KJ9611

Where: Slope County, North Dakota (46.5° N, 104.0° W: paleocoordinates 52.8° N, 78.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• -9m to Hell Creek-Fort Union contact datum, -11.14m 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 48184: 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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Bisonia niemii
Johnson; HC200
Fokieniopsis catenulata
(Bell) McIver and Basinger; HC137
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Sequoia "HC70" Endlicher 1847 coast redwood
HC70
Angiospermae
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Marmarthia trivialis Johnson 1996 laurel
(Lesquereux) Johnson; HC105
Marmarthia pearsonii Johnson 1996 laurel
Johnson; HC162
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanaceae "HC209" Lestiboudois 1826
HC209
Platanites marginata Lesquereux 1872
HC1-106
 Proteales - Nelumbonaceae
Nelumbo "FU62" Adanson 1763 lotus
FU62
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
 Nymphaeales - Nymphaeaceae
Paranymphaea hastata water lily
HC111
 Rosids - Moraceae
Ficus planicostata Lesquereux 1872 fig
HC4
 Rosales - Ulmaceae
Ulmaceae "HC36" Brisseau-Mirbel 1815 elm
HC36
 Rosales - Rhamnaceae
Ziziphus fibrillosus buckthorn
HC174
 Malvales - Tiliaceae
  -
"Dicotyledonae "HC263"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "HC263"" = Dicotyledoneae
HC263