USGS locality 8549, 1 mile east of Hathaway, halfway up slope of bluff: Early Paleocene, Montana
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Coniferales
- Cupressaceae
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Glyptostrobus nordenskioldi seed/fruit
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Taxodium olriki leaf
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Montana |
| Coordinates: | 46.3° North, 106.2° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 52.4° North, 82.1° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
| Stage: | Danian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Early Paleocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 66 - 61.6 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Fort Union | Member: | Tullock |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "siliciclastic" |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USNM |
| Collection method comments: Collected by R. W. Brown and F. S. MacNeill on Aug. 21, 1936 | |
| Taxonomic list comments: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. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 53844 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Wilf | Enterer: | J. Sessa |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | paleobotany |
| Created: | 2005-09-14 19:23:02 | Last modified: | 2022-05-10 04:04:50 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-09-14 19:23:02 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 10820. | 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] |