KJ87111 (DMNH 430) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Old 87111, KJ87111, 9137

Where: Slope County, North Dakota (46.3° N, 104.0° W: paleocoordinates 52.5° N, 77.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• -75m to Hell Creek-Fort Union contact datum, -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 and 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 48251: 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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Erlingdorfia montana
(Brown) Johnson; HC57-64
Angiospermae
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"Dicotyledonae "FU60"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "HC27"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "HC55"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "HC155"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "HC268"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "FU60"" = Dicotyledoneae
FU60
"Dicotyledonae "HC27"" = Dicotyledoneae
HC27
"Dicotyledonae "HC55"" = Dicotyledoneae
HC55
"Dicotyledonae "HC155"" = Dicotyledoneae
HC155
"Dicotyledonae "HC268"" = Dicotyledoneae
HC268
 Vitales - Vitaceae
 Fagales - Nothofagaceae
Dryophyllum subfalcatum Lesquereux 1875
HC49
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanaceae "HC99" Lestiboudois 1826
HC99
Platanaceae "HC151" Lestiboudois 1826
HC151
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
aff. Cercidiphyllum "HC124" Siebold and Zuccarini 1846 katsura
HC124
 Trochodendrales -
Trochodendrales "HC73" Takhtajan 1981
HC73
 Mesangiosperms - Araceae
Pistia corrugata Lesquereux 1874 water cabbage
HC77
 Magnoliid - Magnoliidae
"Magnoliidae "HC66"" = Magnoliid
"Magnoliidae "HC66"" = Magnoliid Jud 2011
HC66
Leepierceia preartocarpoides
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Leepierceia preartocarpoides Johnson 1996
(Brown) Johnson; HC86