USGS locality 5713, Trinidad coal field R.R. cut N of Wootton, near USGS 5711 (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Wootton County, Colorado (37.0° N, 104.5° W: paleocoordinates 42.7° N, 85.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Raton Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

• Although not specified, this collection likely comes from the Raton Fm.

Environment/lithology: fluvial; coal and sandstone

• Raton Fm is made up of coals and sandstones; Brown states that most collections come from coals.

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Specimens were collected in 1910, with W.T. Lee in charge - from USGS unpublished logbook.

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 52845: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 23.08.2005

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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