Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.8° N, 108.8° W: paleocoordinates 50.4° N, 89.4° 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 UNSM
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 129223: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Mike Donovan on 22.06.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
Juglandaceae sp. Perleb 1818 | |
"Dicotyledonae "SC1"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "SC2"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "SC1"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "SC2"" = Dicotyledoneae | |
Cercidiphyllum genetrix Newberry 1868 katsura | |
Platanus raynoldsi Newberry 1868 plane tree | |
Bivalvia | |
Davidia antiqua Manchester 2002 clam | |
Browniea serrata | |
Browniea serrata Manchester and Hickey 2007 |