USGS locality 7005, Half a mile north of NW corner of T.128, NE MT coalfield (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Montana (49.0° N, 105.3° W: paleocoordinates 54.5° 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 A.J. Collier on September 3, 1915

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 55858: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 06.11.2005

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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.
Dicotyledoneae
 Myrtales - Melastomataceae
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Glyptostrobus nordenskioldi Chinese swamp cypress
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood
Polypodiopsida
  - Blechnaceae
Woodwardia arctica Brown 1962