USGS locality 5886, Terry Project; NE 1/4 Sec. 17, T. 10N, R. 59E (Paleocene of the United States)
Where: Montana (46.6° N, 104.3° 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 F.A. Herald, J.R. H. & J.R. Newby Sept. 2, 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 55853: 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.
Show authors, comments, and common names
| Equisetopsida | |
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Araucaria longifolia Brown 1962 | |
| Angiospermae | |
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Sabal imperialis Dawson 1882 palm | |