USGS locality 3852, near Winchester, WY, Fort Union Fm (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Bighorn County, Wyoming (43.9° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 50.0° N, 86.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

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

• lower Fort Union.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; siliciclastic sediments

• no lithologic information is given.

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Specimens were collected by C.A. Fisher, 1905

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 40146: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 18.06.2004

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.
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Angiospermae
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
Cercidiphyllum arcticum
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Sassafras thermale
Sassafras thermale Brown 1962 sassafras
 Magnoliales - Magnoliaceae
Magnolia magnifolia
Magnolia magnifolia Knowlton 1918 magnolia
 Vitales - Vitaceae
Cissus marginata
Cissus marginata Lesquereux 1872
 Fabales - Fabaceae
Leguminosites coloradensis
Leguminosites coloradensis Knowlton 1922 legume
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