USGS locality 8191, Cliffs along left bank of Yellowstone River, near Burns (Paleocene of the United States)
Where: Montana (47.4° N, 104.4° W: paleocoordinates 52.8° N, 81.4° 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,
• Colleted by R.W. Brown and K.J. Murata on Aug. 20, 1931
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 53604: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 12.09.2005
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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