USGS locality 4896, 1 mi southeast of Dietz, WY, upper Fort Union Fm (Paleocene of the United States)
Where: Wyoming (44.9° N, 107.0° W: paleocoordinates 50.8° N, 85.2° W)
When: Fort Union Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
• upper Fort Union
Environment/lithology: fluvial
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• Specimens were collected by T.E. Williard, Aug. 13, 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 41227: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 09.07.2004
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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