Where: Montana (47.1° N, 104.7° W: paleocoordinates 52.5° N, 81.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Fort Union Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
• middle Fort Union
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; carbonaceous shale
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• Specimens were collected by C. A. White, August 17, 1882
Primary reference: R. W. Brown. 1962. Paleocene flora of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 375:1-119 [P. Wilf/J. Sessa/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 40098: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 17.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Taxodium olriki cypress
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood | |
Magnoliopsida | |
"Acer newberryi" = Dicotylophyllum trilobum
"Acer newberryi" = Dicotylophyllum trilobum Newberry 1868 | |
Angiospermae | |
Lindera obtusata Brown 1962 laurel | |
Cercidiphyllum articum katsura | |
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Platanus raynoldsi Newberry 1868 plane tree | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
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Angiospermae | |
Magnolia borealis magnolia | |
Ampelopsis acerifolia Newberry 1868 | |
Hepaticae | |
Marchantia lignitica Brown 1962 liverwort
Preissites wardii Knowlton 1894 liverwort | |
Lycopodiopsida | |
Selaginella collieri Knowlton 1916 spikemoss | |
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Beringiaphyllum cupanioides | |
Beringiaphyllum cupanioides Manchester et al. 1999 |