Also known as USGS locality 6666
Where: Bighorn County, Wyoming (43.9° N, 108.5° W: paleocoordinates 50.0° N, 87.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Fort Union Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
• lower Fort Union
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; coal
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• Specimens were collected by E. G. Woodruff, 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 40775: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 30.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Ginkgoopsida | |
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Ginkgo adiantoides Unger 1845 ginkgo | |
| Polypodiopsida | |
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Woodwardia arctica Brown 1962 | |
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Lastrea goldiana Lesquereux 1878 | |
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Glyptostrobus nordenskioldi Chinese swamp cypress
Taxodium olriki cypress
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood | |
| Angiospermae | |
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Betula stevensoni birch | |
| Dicotyledoneae | |
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Kalmia elliptica Brown 1962 lambkill | |
| Angiospermae | |
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Persea brossiana Lesquereux 1878 laurel
Laurophyllum perseanum Brown 1962 laurel | |
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Fraxinus eocenica Lesquereux 1878 ash | |
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Cercidiphyllum arcticum katsura | |
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Hydrangea antica hydrangea | |
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Platanus raynoldsi Newberry 1868 plane tree | |
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