Where: Morton County, North Dakota (46.6° N, 101.0° W: paleocoordinates 51.4° N, 78.2° 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 Neumann & Mansfield for E.R. Lloyd on Sept. 4, 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 58022: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 16.01.2006
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Taxonomic list
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