KJ88131 CENSUS (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as KJ88131

Where: Bowman County, North Dakota (46.1° N, 103.9° W: paleocoordinates 52.4° N, 77.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• -103m to Hell Creek-Fort Union contact datum, -103m 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: bulk, 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 48293: 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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Fokieniopsis catenulata
(Bell) McIver and Basinger; HC137
Angiospermae
 Celastrales - Celastraceae
Celastrus taurenensis bittersweet
HC94
 Violales - Flacourtiaceae
Flacourtiaceae "FU49" Richard and Candolle 1824
FU49
 Ranunculales - Menispermaceae
Cocculus flabella Wolfe 1966
FU43
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
Cercidiphyllum genetrix Newberry 1868 katsura
Hickey; FU5
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanaceae "HC197" Lestiboudois 1826
HC197
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxaceae