Where: Rutland County, Vermont (43.8° N, 73.1° W: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 68.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Miocene to Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; unlithified claystone and poorly lithified coal

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original carbon

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, sieve,

Primary reference: B. H. Tiffney. 1994. Re-Evaluation of the age of the Brandon lignite (Vermont, USA) based on plant megafossils. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 82:299-315 [B. Tiffney/J. Bean/J. Bean]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22776: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Sara Pendleton on 25.06.2002

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