USGS locality 6765, First cut on N. P.Ry. 3/4 mile south of Wilsall (Paleocene of the United States)
Where: Montana (46.0° N, 110.7° W: paleocoordinates 52.5° N, 88.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Fort Union Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: fluvial; siliciclastic sediments
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• Specimens were collected by F.H. Knowlton and E.W. Berry in 1913.
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 53526: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 11.09.2005
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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Glyptostrobus nordenskioldi Chinese swamp cypress | |
| Angiospermae | |
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Corylus insignis Heer 1871 hazel | |
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Magnolia borealis magnolia | |
| Ginkgoopsida | |
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Ginkgo adiantoides Unger 1845 ginkgo | |