USGS locality 5389, S. of Brockton, Ft Peck Indian Reservation, MT Fort Union Fm (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Montana (48.1° N, 105.6° W: paleocoordinates 53.6° N, 82.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

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

• lower Fort Union, near contact of Yellow & Somber beds

Environment/lithology: fluvial; siliciclastic sediments

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Specimens were collected by C.D. Smith, 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 43253: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 11.08.2004

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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.
Angiospermae
 Cornales - Cornaceae
Cornus hyperborea Heer 1871 dogwood
Cornus hyperborea nebrascensis
 Garryales - Eucommiaceae