USGS locality 6131, 1 mile north C.M. & P.S.R.R. bridge, Terry Project (Paleocene of the United States)
Where: Montana (46.8° N, 105.5° W: paleocoordinates 52.4° N, 82.8° 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 G.S. Rogers party on July 8, 1911
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 55855: 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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Cercidiphyllum arcticum katsura | |