Also known as PW 956
Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.6° N, 108.6° W: paleocoordinates 47.0° N, 90.7° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fort Union Formation, Clarkforkian (56.2 - 54.9 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; lithified, carbonaceous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,
• only dicot leaves censused; see corresponding non-census locality for full species list and additional comments. Insect damage census site for Wilf and Labandeira 1999 and Wilf et al. 2001.Total collection size here includes earlier component (for Wilf 2000) without insect damage tally as well as insect damage tally (Wilf and Labandeira 1999, Wilf et. al 2001). See online supplement of Wilf et al. 2001 for insect damage data for each specimen in the insect damage census.
Primary reference: P. Wilf. 2000. Late Paleocene-early Eocene climate changes in southwestern Wyoming: Paleobotanical analysis. Geological Society America Bulletin 112(2):292-307 [P. Wilf/P. Wilf/P. Wilf]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 28900: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Peter Wilf on 28.02.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
Magnoliaceae "FW07-22-46" de Jussieu 1789 magnolia Morphotype #FW07-22-46; see Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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"Ampelopsis" acerifolia Newberry 1868 Morphotype #FW14; see Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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""Carya" antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora
""Carya" antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora Newberry 1868 Morphotype #BB03; should be placed in Aesculus antiquorum; see Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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Corylites "FW01" Gardner 1887 birch Morphotype #FW01; see Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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"Dicotyledonae "FW40"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "FW40"" = Dicotyledoneae Morphotype #FW40; see Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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Dicotyledoneae | |
Ternstroemites aureavallis Hickey 1977 Morphotype #FW29; see Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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Angiospermae | |
aff. Ocotea "FW03" Aublet 1775 laurel Morphotype #FW03; see Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
Persites argutus Hickey 1977 laurel Morphotype #FW08,WM10; see Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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Cornus hyperborea Heer 1871 dogwood Morphotype #FW34; see Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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Cercidiphyllaceae "FW09" Engler 1907 Morphotype #FW09; see Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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