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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
Juglandicarya sp., "Carya antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora
Juglandicarya sp. Reid and Chandler 1933
"Carya antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora Newberry 1868 | |
Equisetopsida | |
Araucaria longifolia Brown 1962 |