USGS locality 8519, 4.5 miles east of Shirley and 25 miles east of Miles City (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Montana (46.6° N, 105.9° W: paleocoordinates 52.6° N, 81.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Tullock Formation, Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 61.7 Ma)

• Tullock, above thin coal

Environment/lithology: fluvial; siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Collected by R. W. Brown and F. S. MacNeill on Aug. 14, 1936

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 53692: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 13.09.2005

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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.
unclassified
  -
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Araucaria longifolia Brown 1962
cones and foliage
Polypodiopsida
 Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
Dryopteris serrata Brown 1962
  - Osmundaceae
Osmunda macrophylla Penhallow 1908
  - Blechnaceae
Woodwardia arctica Brown 1962
  - Gleicheniaceae
Angiospermae
 Fagales - Betulaceae
Corylus insignis Heer 1871 hazel
 Oxalidales - Oxalidaceae
"Sapindus affinis" = Averrhoites affinis
"Sapindus affinis" = Averrhoites affinis Newberry 1868 wood sorrel
 Rosales - Rhamnaceae
Rhamnus hirsuta buckthorn
 Rosales - Ulmaceae
Celtis aspera2 Manchester 2014 hackberry
 Vitales - Vitaceae
Vitis lobata Knowlton 1924 grapevine
Dicotyledoneae
 Myrtales - Melastomataceae
Angiospermae
 Mesangiosperms - Arecaceae
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
 Nymphaeales - Nymphaeaceae
Paranymphaea crassifolia Newberry 1935 water lily
Bivalvia
 Actinodontida - Cycloconchidae
Davidia antiqua1 Manchester 2002 clam
Mnium
  -
Mnium montanense Brown 1962
Beringiaphyllum cupanioides
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Beringiaphyllum cupanioides3 Manchester et al. 1999