USGS locality 5594, Milk River coal field, MT, upper Fort Union Fm (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as USGS locality 5594, USGS locality 5595

Where: Montana (48.4° N, 109.3° W: paleocoordinates 54.6° N, 86.3° 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 L.J. Pepperberg, September 15, 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 43313: 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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 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Metasequoia occidentalis
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood
Angiospermae
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
Juglans taurina
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Sassafras thermale
Sassafras thermale Brown 1962 sassafras
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanus nobilis
Platanus nobilis Newberry 1868 plane tree
 Garryales - Eucommiaceae
Eucommia serrata
 Typhales - Commelinidae
Sparganium antiquum
Sparganium antiquum Berry 1924 bur-reed
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