Where: Wyoming (45.0° N, 107.3° W: paleocoordinates 50.9° N, 85.6° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Fort Union Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
• lower Fort Union
Environment/lithology: fluvial; siliciclastic sediments
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• Specimens were collected by T.W. Stanton and R.W. Stone Sept. 4, 1909.
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 43303: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 11.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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