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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
Ficus subtruncata Lesquereux 1872 fig | |