USGS locality 8165, about 10 miles northeast of Garland (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Custer County, Montana (45.9° N, 105.9° W: paleocoordinates 51.6° N, 83.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Lebo Member (Fort Union Formation), Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

• Near top of Lebo member, 15 feet below top of hill at Last Flag

Environment/lithology: fluvial; shale

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Specimens were collected by R.W. Brown on Sept. 25, 1929

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 53535: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 11.09.2005

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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.
Angiospermae
 Lamiales - Oleaceae
Fraxinus eocenica Lesquereux 1878 ash
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood