Where: Montana (46.6° N, 105.7° W: paleocoordinates 52.2° N, 83.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Tongue River Member (Fort Union Formation), Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
• Base of Tongue River member of Ft. Union
Environment/lithology: fluvial; siliciclastic sediments
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 53690: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 13.09.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
"Nelumbium montanum" = Nelumbago montanum
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