USGS locality 4909, near Prairie Dog Creek, WY, upper Fort Union Fm (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Wyoming (44.9° N, 106.9° W: paleocoordinates 50.8° N, 85.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• upper Fort Union Fm

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Specimens were collected by T.E. Willard, Aug. 19, 1907.

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 40888: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 02.07.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

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
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae