USGS locality 5030, southwest of Black Buttes, upper Fort Union Fm (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Wyoming (41.2° N, 108.9° W: paleocoordinates 47.5° N, 88.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• upper Fort Union

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Specimens were collected by T.W. Stanton & C.A. Fisher July 24, 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 40938: 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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 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Thuja interruptus
Polypodiopsida
  - Blechnaceae
Woodwardia arctica
Woodwardia arctica Brown 1962
 Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
Saccoloma gardneri
Saccoloma gardneri Lesquereux 1873