USGS locality 8230, North of road; +/- 5 miles west of Grassy Butte, Fort Union (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: North Dakota (47.4° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 52.6° N, 80.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

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

Environment/lithology: fluvial; siliciclastic sediments

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Specimens were collected by R. W. Brown, T. W. Stanton, J. Murata on June 28, 1931

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 58046: 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.
Bivalvia
 Actinodontida - Cycloconchidae
Davidia antiqua Manchester 2002 clam
Angiospermae
 Typhales - Commelinidae
Sparganium antiquum Berry 1924 bur-reed