USGS locality 4725, near Rock Springs, WY, lower Fort Union Fm: Paleocene, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Angiospermae
- Laurales
- Lauraceae
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Cinnamomum sezannense leaf
Brown 1962
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming |
| Coordinates: | 41.6° North, 108.6° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 47.8° North, 88.1° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
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 | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: lower Fort Union | |||||
Lithology and environment
| 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 J. T. Singerwald, Sept. 28, 1907
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| 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: | 40783 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Wilf | Enterer: | J. Sessa |
| Modifier: | J. Sessa | Research group: | paleobotany |
| Created: | 2004-06-30 19:19:30 | Last modified: | 2004-06-30 22:19:30 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-06-30 19:19:30 |
| 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] |