USGS locality 6738, about 12 miles north of Glenrock, Fort Union? (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Wyoming (43.0° N, 106.1° W: paleocoordinates 48.8° N, 84.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• This collection has no statrigraphic information; I am placing it in the Fort Union Fm because it is close (42km) to localities in the Fort Union.

Environment/lithology: fluvial; siliciclastic sediments

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Specimens were collected by V.H. Barnett in 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 57963: 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.
Angiospermae
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
Juglandicarya sp., "Carya antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora
Juglandicarya sp. Reid and Chandler 1933
"Carya antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora Newberry 1868
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae