USGS locality 4268, Bluffs on the Little Missouri River, ND, Fort Union Fm (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: North Dakota (46.9° N, 103.5° W: paleocoordinates 52.1° N, 80.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Fort Union Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; coal

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Specimens were collected by Knowlton & Peale, July 11, 1908

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 40426: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 23.06.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Species lists for Brown 1962 were compiled from the publication and provided for the Paleobiology Database by Drs. Steven R. Manchester and Peter R. Crane.
Angiospermae
 Alismales - Alismaceae
Sagittaria megasperma Brown 1962
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