KJ86119 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as KJ86119

Where: Slope County, North Dakota (46.3° N, 104.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 56.4° N, 62.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: HCIa zone, Hell Creek Formation, Lancian (72.2 - 66.0 Ma)

• -65m to Hell Creek-Fort Union contact datum, -65m 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 48249: authorized by Kirk Johnson, entered by Kirk Johnson on 15.03.2005

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Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanaceae "HC98" Lestiboudois 1826
HC98
 Fagales - Nothofagaceae
Dryophyllum subfalcatum Lesquereux 1875
HC49
Leepierceia preartocarpoides
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Leepierceia preartocarpoides Johnson 1996
(Brown) Johnson; HC86