Where: Wyoming (42.3° N, 107.5° W: paleocoordinates 48.4° N, 86.7° 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 (46km) to localities in the Fort Union.

Environment/lithology: fluvial; siliciclastic sediments

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Specimens were collected by C.J. Hares on October 3, 1914.

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 57964: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 11.01.2006

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