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Fossil leaf species from the Fox Hills Formation (Upper Cretaceous: North Dakota, USA) and their paleogeographic significance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Daniel J. Peppe ,
J. Mark Erickson  and
Leo J. Hickey
Daniel J. Peppe
Affiliation:
Yale University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, ,
J. Mark Erickson
Affiliation:
St. Lawrence University, Department of Geology, Canton, New York 13617,
Leo J. Hickey
Affiliation:
Yale University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, ,
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Abstract

Seven fossil leaf species are described from impression fossils collected from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Fox Hills Formation in south-central North Dakota, USA. They are Marmarthia johnsonii n. sp., Nilssoniocladus yukonensis n. comb., Nilssoniocladus comtula n. comb., Mesocyparis borealis, Rhamnus salicifolius, Paloreodoxites plicatus, and Zingiberopsis magnifolia. These species represent some of the elements of the Fox Hills flora that have paleogeographic ranges to the northwest (N. yukonensis, N. comtula, and M. borealis) and to the southwest (M. johnsonii, R. salicifolius, P. plicatus, and Z. magnifolia) of the Fox Hills type area. The identification and reappraisal of these species represent an effort to understand the biogeographic relationships of Late Cretaceous floras across the Northern Hemisphere.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 81 , Issue 3 , May 2007 , pp. 550 - 567
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