USGS locality 1502 Black Buttes, WY, upper Fort Union Fm: Paleocene, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae - Laurales - Lauraceae
Sassafras thermale leaf Brown 1962
Angiospermae - Oxalidales - Oxalidaceae
Sapindus affinis leaf Newberry 1868
recombined as Averrhoites affinis
Polypodiopsida - Schizaeales - Anemiaceae
Anemia elongata leaf (Newberry 1863)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming
Coordinates: 41.6° North, 108.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.8° North, 88.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Paleocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1
Key time interval:Paleocene
Age range of interval:66.00000 - 56.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Fort Union Local bed:Black Rock coal group
Regional section:Great Divide Basin
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: 'Same horizon as Location 371. upper Fort Union.'
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:white conglomeratic sandstone
Secondary lithology: coal
Lithology description: somewhat conglomeratic basal white sandstone.
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Collection method comments: Specimens were collected by F. H. Knowlton on Aug. 4-5, 1896.
Taxonomic list comments: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.
Metadata
Database number:40090
Authorizer:P. Wilf Enterer:J. Sessa
Modifier:J. Sessa Research group:paleobotany
Created:2004-06-17 10:58:02 Last modified:2004-06-25 15:54:38
Access level:the public Released:2004-06-17 10:58:02
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
10820. 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]