Where: Stark County, North Dakota (47.0° N, 102.7° W: paleocoordinates 51.3° N, 82.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bear Den Member (Golden Valley Formation), Clarkforkian (56.2 - 54.9 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "channel"; siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: L. 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 10975: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 08.07.2001, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Cotradechites lithinus n. gen. n. sp.
Cotradechites lithinus n. gen. n. sp. Fennah 1968 planthopper PU 888-93 (coll. Leo J. Hickey 11-12 ft below top of lower member, lower gray zone)
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Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood | |
Angiospermae | |
Paranymphaea crassifolia Newberry 1935 water lily | |
Acer sp. Linnaeus 1753 maple | |
"Cocculus" flabella Wolfe 1966 | |
Meliosma longifolia Hickey 1977 | |
Platanus nobilis Newberry 1868 plane tree | |
Carpolithes | |
Carpolithes arcticus Hickey 1977 |