KJ86108 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as KJ86108, 87161

Where: Slope County, North Dakota (46.3° N, 103.9° W: paleocoordinates 52.5° N, 77.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• -55m to Hell Creek-Fort Union contact datum, -55.75m 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

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Specimens located at Yale Peabody Museum

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 48239: authorized by Kirk Johnson, entered by Kirk Johnson on 15.03.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Metasequoia "HC35" Miki 1941 dawn redwood
HC35
Angiospermae
  -
"Dicotyledonae "HC96"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "HC131"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "HC96"" = Dicotyledoneae
HC96
"Dicotyledonae "HC131"" = Dicotyledoneae
HC131
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Cinnamomum lineafolia cinnamon
HC92
 Trochodendrales -
Trochodendrales "HC73" Takhtajan 1981
HC73
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanaceae "HC140" Lestiboudois 1826
HC140
 Rosales - Urticaceae
Urticaceae "HC93" de Jussieu 1789 nettle
HC93
 Rosales - Rosaceae
Rosaceae "HC80" Jussieu 1789 rose
HC80
 Rosales - Cannabaceae
Cannabaceae "HC81" Martinov 1820 hemp
HC81
 Celastrales - Celastraceae
Celastrus taurenensis bittersweet
HC94
Polypodiopsida
 Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
? Polypodiaceae "HC241" Presl and Presl 1822
HC241
Leepierceia preartocarpoides
  -
Leepierceia preartocarpoides Johnson 1996
(Brown) Johnson; HC86