Where: Ilo quadrangle County, Wyoming (43.9° N, 108.5° W: paleocoordinates 50.0° N, 87.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Fort Union Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
• 200 feet above base of Fort Union
Environment/lithology: fluvial; siliciclastic sediments
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• Specimens were collected by D.F. Hewett on October 5, 1913.
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 57961: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 11.01.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
Ficus artocarpoides Lesquereux 1883 fig |