USGS locality 5618, just above coal bed 175 ft. below Rolan coal, Fort Union Fm (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Crook County, Wyoming (44.6° N, 105.4° W: paleocoordinates 50.2° N, 83.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• just above coal bed, 175 ft. below Roland coal

Environment/lithology: fluvial; siliciclastic sediments

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Specimens were collected by J.A. Davis in charge in 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 57929: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 10.01.2006

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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.
Angiospermae
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
"Carya antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora
"Carya antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora Newberry 1868
 Fagales - Betulaceae