USGS locality 5994, west side of Platte River near bridge (Paleocene of the United States)
Where: Colorado (40.9° N, 106.3° W: paleocoordinates 46.8° N, 85.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Coalmont Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone and coal
• Lower 3000 to 4000 ft are dark colored coal bearing upper 2,000 ft are light colored barren SS and conglomerates - Brown does not specify where this collection came from.
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• Collected by A.L. Beekly on July 16, 1911
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 53003: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 30.08.2005
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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| Angiospermae | |
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Ampelopsis acerifolia Newberry 1868 | |
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Platanus raynoldsi Newberry 1868 plane tree | |
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Laurophyllum perseanum Brown 1962 laurel | |