Where: Montana (48.2° N, 104.9° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 56.2° N, 68.0° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Fort Union Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
• lower Fort Union
Environment/lithology: fluvial; siliciclastic sediments
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• Specimens were collected by C.D. Smith, 1908.
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 43252: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 11.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
Nyssa alata tupelo |