USGS locality 6598, Morton Co. Project, Fort Union Fm (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Morton County, North Dakota (46.2° N, 101.3° W: paleocoordinates 51.1° N, 78.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• This collection has no stratigraphic information; I am tentatively placing it in the Fort Union Fm because it is close to Fort Union localities.

Environment/lithology: fluvial; siliciclastic sediments

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Specimens were collected by L.M. Neumann on July 31, 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 58021: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 16.01.2006

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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
 Rosids - Moraceae
Ficus subtruncata Lesquereux 1872 fig
 Garryales - Eucommiaceae