USGS locality 8660, mine 10 miles west of Rawlins, Wasatch Fm: Early/Lower Eocene, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae - Vitales - Vitaceae
Cissus marginata leaf (Lesquereux 1872)
Angiospermae - Rosales - Rosaceae
Prunus corrugis
Angiospermae - Fagales - Juglandaceae
Carya antiquorum leaf Newberry 1868
recombined as Hicoria antiquora
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming
Coordinates: 41.8° North, 107.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.3° North, 91.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Early/Lower Eocene
Age range of interval:56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Wasatch
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Collection method comments: Specimens were collected by R.W. Brown and C.W. Mumm on July 1, 1938
Taxonomic list comments:Species lists for Brown 1962 were compiled from the publication and provided for the Paleobiology Database by Drs. Steven R. Manchester and Peter R. Crane.
Metadata
Database number:57980
Authorizer:P. Wilf Enterer:J. Sessa
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:paleobotany
Created:2006-01-12 12:34:43 Last modified:2022-05-10 07:49:20
Access level:the public Released:2006-01-12 12:34:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
10820. 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/M. Uhen]