KJ0143 (2514) CENSUS (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as The Nose Lesson, KJ0143

Where: Bowman County, North Dakota (46.0° N, 103.0° W: paleocoordinates 52.0° N, 76.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: FUI zone, Ludlow Member (Fort Union Formation), Lancian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• m to Hell Creek-Fort Union contact datum, m to K-T boundary based on calculations in Johnson (2002)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; poorly lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: bulk, 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 48270: authorized by Kirk Johnson, entered by Kirk Johnson on 15.03.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
Populus nebrascensis Newberry 1868 poplar
FU7
 Nymphaeales - Nymphaeaceae
Paranymphaea crassifolia Newberry 1935 water lily
(Newberry) Berry; FU1
 Cornales - Cornaceae
Cornophyllum newberryi
(Hollick) McIver and Basinger; FU31
 Ranunculales - Menispermaceae
Cocculus flabella Wolfe 1966
FU43
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanus raynoldsii Newberry 1868 plane tree
FU16
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Taxodium olrikii cypress
HC71