USGS locality 4571, southeast of Roundup, MT, Bull Mnt, Fort Union Fm (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Montana (46.2° N, 108.4° W: paleocoordinates 52.3° N, 86.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• lower Fort Union

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; coal

• coal field - from USGS unpublished log book.

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Specimens were collected by L.H. Woolsey, 1907 - from USGS unpublished log book.

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 40740: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 29.06.2004

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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.
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Angiospermae
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Cinnamomum sezannense
Cinnamomum sezannense Brown 1962 cinnamon
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Glyptostrobus nordenskioldi
Glyptostrobus nordenskioldi Chinese swamp cypress