USGS locality 9322, Eagle Coal Mine, 1 mi south of Bear Creek, Fort Union (Paleocene of the United States)
Where: Montana (45.2° N, 109.3° W: paleocoordinates 51.4° N, 87.6° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Fort Union Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
• upper Fort Union
Environment/lithology: fluvial; coal
• coal bearing
Reposited in the AMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• Collected on May 8, 1905
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 55850: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 06.11.2005
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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