KJ9535 (DMNH 1491) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Madelines Bank, KJ9535, 9823

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)

• -56m to Hell Creek-Fort Union contact datum, -56.75m 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

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 48243: authorized by Kirk Johnson, entered by Kirk Johnson on 15.03.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Erlingdorfia montana
(Brown) Johnson; HC57-64
Fokieniopsis catenulata
(Bell) McIver and Basinger; HC137
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
? Araucariaceae "HC83" Henckel and Hochstetter 1865
HC83
Angiospermae
  -
"Dicotyledonae "HC135"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "HC214"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "HC216"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "HC217"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "HC222"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "HC135"" = Dicotyledoneae
HC135
"Dicotyledonae "HC214"" = Dicotyledoneae
HC214
"Dicotyledonae "HC216"" = Dicotyledoneae
HC216
"Dicotyledonae "HC217"" = Dicotyledoneae
HC217
"Dicotyledonae "HC222"" = Dicotyledoneae
HC222
Dicotyledoneae
 Urticales -
 Rosidae - Rosidae
? Rosidae "HC90" Takhtajan 1967
HC90
Rosidae "HC211" Takhtajan 1967
HC211
Angiospermae
 Celastrales - Celastraceae
Celastrus taurenensis bittersweet
HC94
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanaceae "HC213" Lestiboudois 1826
HC213
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Cinnamomum lineafolia cinnamon
HC92
 Coniferales -
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Taxodium olrikii cypress
HC71
Sequoia "HC70" Endlicher 1847 coast redwood
HC70
Pteridopsida
 Filicales -
Leepierceia preartocarpoides
  -
Leepierceia preartocarpoides Johnson 1996
(Brown) Johnson; HC86