USGS locality 5300, 7 mi southeast of Fattig post office MT, upper Fort Union Fm (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: New Mexico (46.3° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 52.3° N, 86.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• upper Fort Union

Environment/lithology: fluvial; siliciclastic sediments

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Specimens were collected by R.W. Richards, August 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 43246: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 11.08.2004

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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Angiospermae
 Rosales - Ulmaceae
Chaetoptelea microphylla
Chaetoptelea microphylla Newberry 1868 elm