USGS locality 4618, Lebo Creek, MT, Fort Union Fm (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Montana (46.3° N, 110.4° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 56.0° N, 75.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on political unit

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

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; gray sandstone

• near the base of the massive gray sandstone of the Fort Union FM - from USGS unpublished log book.

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Specimens were collected by Stanton & Fisher, Sept. 15, 1907.

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 40743: 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
 Icacinales - Icacinaceae
Palaeophytocrene sp.
Palaeophytocrene sp. Reid and Chandler 1933 white pear