KJ9849 (DMNH 2214) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Above Dean's Hadrosaur, KJ9849

Where: Slope County, North Dakota (46.5° N, 104.0° W: paleocoordinates 52.7° 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)

• -19m to Hell Creek-Fort Union contact datum, -21.14m 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 48203: authorized by Kirk Johnson, entered by Kirk Johnson on 15.03.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Sequoia "HC70" Endlicher 1847 coast redwood
HC70
Angiospermae
 Rosales - Rhamnaceae
Rhamnus cleburni Lesquereux 1872 buckthorn
HC62
 Fagales - Nothofagaceae