Where: Walcott Quadrangle County, Wyoming (42.0° N, 106.8° W: paleocoordinates 47.9° N, 86.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Ferris? Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
• These collections have no statrigraphic information; I am placing them in the Ferris Fm because they are close to a locality in the Ferris Fm.
Environment/lithology: fluvial; siliciclastic sediments
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• Specimens were collected by A.L. Buckly on October 14, 1912.
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 57945: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 11.01.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
Castanea intermedia Lesquereux 1878 chestnut |