USGS locality 6299, 1 mile south of Ducey's ranch, 7 miles NW of Craig (Paleocene of the United States)
Where: Colorado (40.5° N, 107.6° W: paleocoordinates 46.6° N, 87.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Fort Union Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone
• irregular coarse sandstone
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• Collected by W.T. Lee in 1912.
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 53062: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 03.09.2005
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 | |
"Carya antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora
"Carya antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora Newberry 1868 | |