USGS locality 5798, Trinidad coal field, dump from mine at Primero (Paleocene of the United States)
Where: Primero County, Colorado (37.2° N, 104.7° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 45.9° N, 74.1° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Raton Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
• dump pile
Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone and coal
• Raton Fm is made up of sandstones and coals.
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• Collected in 1910, with W.T. Lee in charge.
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 52932: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 28.08.2005
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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.
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| Polypodiopsida | |
| Angiospermae | |
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Apocynophyllum lesquereuxi dogbane | |
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Platanus raynoldsi Newberry 1868 plane tree | |
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Laurophyllum caudatum Brown 1962 laurel | |
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Magnolia magnifolia Knowlton 1918 magnolia | |