USGS locality 8549, 1 mile east of Hathaway, halfway up slope of bluff (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Montana (46.3° N, 106.2° W: paleocoordinates 52.4° N, 82.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Tullock Member (Fort Union Formation), Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 61.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Collected by R. W. Brown and F. S. MacNeill on Aug. 21, 1936

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 53844: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 14.09.2005

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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.
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