USGS locality 8668, 10 miles south of Rozet (east of Gillette), Fort Union Fm (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Wyoming (44.3° N, 105.2° W: paleocoordinates 49.9° N, 83.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

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

• Lower part of Fort Union

Environment/lithology: fluvial; ferruginous sandstone

• In ironstone

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Specimens were collected by Brown on June 15, 1938

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 57984: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 12.01.2006

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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.
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Angiospermae
 Rosales - Rosaceae
Prunus corrugis