USGS locality 8567, near Melville, MT, lower Fort Union Fm (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Montana (46.1° N, 110.0° W: paleocoordinates 52.4° N, 88.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

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

• lower Fort Union

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Specimens were collected by R. W. Brown, F. S. MacNeill, A. C. Silberling, Aug. 27, 1936.

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 40932: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 03.07.2004

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.
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Magnoliopsida
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"Acer silberlingi" = Dicotylophyllum silberlingi
"Acer silberlingi" = Dicotylophyllum silberlingi Brown 1962
Angiospermae
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
Cercidiphyllum arcticum
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanus nobilis
Platanus nobilis Newberry 1868 plane tree
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Laurus socialis, Laurophyllum perseanum
Laurus socialis Lesquereux 1878 laurel
Laurophyllum perseanum Brown 1962 laurel
 Mesangiosperms - Arecaceae
Sabal grayana
Sabal grayana Lesquereux 1869 palm
 Nymphaeales - Nymphaeaceae
Paranymphaea crassifolia
Paranymphaea crassifolia Newberry 1935 water lily
 Alismales - Alismaceae
Alismaphyllites grandifolius