USGS locality 5885, Terry Project Sec. 14, T. 10N, R. 58E (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Montana (46.6° N, 104.4° W: paleocoordinates 52.0° N, 81.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Fort Union Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; siliciclastic sediments

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Collected by J.R. Newby on Aug. 26, 1910

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 55852: 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.
Angiospermae
 Rosales - Ulmaceae
Chaetoptelea microphylla1 Newberry 1868 elm
 Garryales - Eucommiaceae
Beringiaphyllum cupanioides
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Beringiaphyllum cupanioides2 Manchester et al. 1999