Also known as Eagle Creek Mine; Eagle Coal Mine; Eagle Mine

Where: Carbon County, Montana (45.2° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 50.5° N, 90.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Fort Union Formation, Clarkforkian (56.2 - 54.9 Ma)

• Earlier literature referred to this as the 'Polecat Bench Formation'

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: D. E. Russell. 1967. Le Paleocene continental d'Amerique du nord. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Serie C., Sciences de la Terre 16(2):37-99 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 15079: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Will Clyde and Philip Mannion

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