Sourdough, USNM locality 41342, 41352 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Sweetwater County County, Wyoming (41.9° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 92.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ramsey Ranch Member (Wasatch Formation), Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying,

• Insect damage census

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 129152: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Mike Donovan on 21.06.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Angiospermae
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"Dicotyledonae "RR37"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "RR57"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "RR48"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "RR88"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "RR95"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "RR31"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "RR94"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "RR63"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "RR37"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "RR57"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "RR48"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicot XXXVI"
"Dicotyledonae "RR88"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "RR95"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "RR31"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "RR94"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "RR63"" = Dicotyledoneae
 Rosales - Rhamnaceae
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
 Malpighiales - Euphorbiaceae
Stillingia casca Hickey 1977 spurge
 Oxalidales - Elaeocarpaceae
Sloanea sp. Linnaeus
 Fagales - Betulaceae
Alnus sp. Miller 1754 alder
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
 Malvales - Sterculiaceae
Dombeya novimundi Hickey 1977
 Santalales - Schoepfiaceae
 Gentianales - Apocynaceae
Apocynaceae "RR17" de Jussieu 1789 dogbane
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Lauraceae "RR46" Jussieu 1789 laurel
 Magnoliales -
cf. Magnoliales "RR12" Jussieu 1820 magnoliids
Cinnamomophyllum
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Cinnamomophyllum "RR19" Kraeusel and Weyland 1950