KJ87112 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as KJ87112

Where: Slope County, North Dakota (49.3° N, 104.0° W: paleocoordinates 55.4° N, 75.8° 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

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 48253: authorized by Kirk Johnson, entered by Kirk Johnson on 15.03.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
  - Polypodiaceae
? Polypodiaceae "HC241" Presl and Presl 1822
HC241
Hepaticae
 Marchantiales - Marchantiaceae
Marchantia pealii liverwort
HC123
Angiospermae
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
aff. Cercidiphyllum "HC124" Siebold and Zuccarini 1846 katsura
HC124
 Fagales - Nothofagaceae
Dryophyllum subfalcatum Lesquereux 1875
HC49
  -
"Dicotyledonae "HC56"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "HC158"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "HC159"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "HC56"" = Dicotyledoneae
HC56
"Dicotyledonae "HC158"" = Dicotyledoneae
HC158
"Dicotyledonae "HC159"" = Dicotyledoneae
HC159
Leepierceia preartocarpoides
  -
Leepierceia preartocarpoides Johnson 1996
(Brown) Johnson; HC86