ammonites
USGS 9071, About 0.25 miles east of mouth of Buck Creek. (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Wyoming (43.5° N, 110.1° W: paleocoordinates 49.8° N, 89.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Paleocene (65.5 - 55.8 Ma)

• there is no stratigraphic information associated with this locality and it is not close to any other localities

Environment/lithology: fluvial; siliciclastic sediments

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Specimens were collected by Bergquist and Love on 1945

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/J. Sessa] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 57999: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 15.01.2006