Where: Wyoming (43.0° N, 104.8° W: paleocoordinates 48.6° N, 83.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• Above 2 coal beds, and 85 feet below top of hill. This collection has no other stratigraphic information; I am tentatively placing it in the Fort Union Fm because it is close (10km) to Fort Union localities.

Environment/lithology: fluvial; siliciclastic sediments

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Specimens were collected by Sec. 3, T 35N, R 66W.

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 57986: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 12.01.2006

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