USGS locality 8261, +/- 2 miles west of Cap Rock, on road Kinsey to Cap Rock (Paleocene of the United States)
Where: Montana (46.6° N, 105.7° W: paleocoordinates 52.2° N, 83.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Lebo Member (Fort Union Formation), Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: fluvial; shale
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• Collected by R. W. Brown, J. Murata on Sept. 12, 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 53689: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 13.09.2005
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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Ficus artocarpoides Lesquereux 1883 fig | |