Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.6° N, 108.6° W: paleocoordinates 47.1° N, 90.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Fort Union Formation, Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying,
Primary reference: P. Wilf, C. C. Labandeira, K. R. Johnson and B. Ellis. 2006. Decoupled plant and insect diversity after the end-Cretaceous extinction. Science 313:1112-1115 [P. Wilf/P. Wilf]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 129153: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Mike Donovan on 21.06.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
Magnoliaceae "FW7" de Jussieu 1789 magnolia | |
"Ampelopsis" acerifolia Newberry 1868 | |
cf. Vinea pugetensis Wolfe 1968 | |
Corylites sp. Gardner 1887 birch | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
Ternstroemites aureavallis Hickey 1977 | |
Angiospermae | |
Lauraceae "FW3" Jussieu 1789 laurel
Persites argutus Hickey 1977 laurel | |
Cornus hyperborea Heer 1871 dogwood | |
Cercidiphyllaceae sp. Engler 1907 | |
Bivalvia | |
aff. Davidia antiqua Manchester 2002 clam |