Crooked Creek (USNM 14092): Wasatchian, North Dakota

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae - Parietales - Ternstroemiaceae
Ternstroemites aureavallis leaf Hickey 1977
1 specimen
Angiospermae - Vitales - Vitaceae
"Ampelopsis" acerifolia leaf (Newberry 1868)
1 specimen
synonym of Populus newberryi
Angiospermae - Malvales - Sterculiaceae
Dombeya novimundi n. sp. leaf Hickey 1977
6 specimens
Angiospermae - Malpighiales - Euphorbiaceae
Stillingia casca leaf Hickey 1977
3 specimens
Angiospermae - Oxalidales - Oxalidaceae
Averrhoites affinis leaf (Newberry 1868)
20 specimens
Angiospermae - Typhales - Sparganiaceae
Sparganium stygium seed repro, seed/fruit Heer 1855
3 specimens
Polypodiopsida - Salviniales - Salviniaceae
Salvinia preauriculata leaf Berry 1925
28 specimens
Polypodiopsida - Schizaeales - Lygodiaceae
Lygodium kaulfussi leaf, non-seed repro Heer
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:North Dakota County:Dunn
Coordinates: 47.1° North, 102.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.1° North, 84.5° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
*Period:Early/Lower Tertiary *Local age/stage:Wasatchian
Key time interval:Wasatchian
Age range of interval:54.90000 - 50.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Golden Valley Member:Camels Butte
Regional section:Williston
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: conglomeratic sandstone
Secondary lithology: "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Dominantly interchannel sandstone and shale; conglomeritic; with lignite
Environment:"channel"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Collection size:63 specimens
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Metadata
Database number:10974
Authorizer:H. Sims Enterer:S. Ostrowski
Modifier:H. Sims Research group:paleobotany
Created:2001-07-08 21:48:04 Last modified:2003-07-22 15:01:10
Access level:the public Released:2001-07-08 21:48:04
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

4023.ETE 425L. J. Hickey. 1977. Stratigraphy and paleobotany of the Golden Valley Formation (Early Tertiary) of western North Dakota. The Geological Society of America Memoir 150:1-183 [H. Sims/S. Ostrowski/J. Cassara]