USGS locality 6176, Fort Union Fm? (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Wiley Quadrangle County, Wyoming (44.2° N, 108.8° W: paleocoordinates 50.5° N, 87.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• This collection has no stratigraphic information; I am tentatively placing it in the Fort Union Fm because it is close to Fort Union localities.

Environment/lithology: fluvial; siliciclastic sediments

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Specimens were collected by D.T. Hewett on Aug. 9, 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 57956: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 11.01.2006

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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.
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood