USGS locality 6430, Ferris Fm?: Paleocene, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae - Moraceae
Ficus artocarpoides leaf Lesquereux 1883
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Walcott Quadrangle
Coordinates: 41.9° North, 106.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.8° North, 86.1° 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:Ferris?
Stratigraphy comments: These collections have no statrigraphic information; I am placing them in the Ferris Fm because they are close to a locality in the Ferris Fm.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
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 L.H. White for C.F. Bowen on August 14, 1913
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:57950
Authorizer:P. Wilf Enterer:J. Sessa
Modifier:J. Sessa Research group:paleobotany
Created:2006-01-11 12:53:05 Last modified:2006-01-11 14:54:10
Access level:the public Released:2006-01-11 12:53:05
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]