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 | |
Angiospermae | |
"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 "RR88"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "RR95"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "RR31"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "RR94"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "RR63"" = Dicotyledoneae | |
Hovenia cf. oregonensis buckthorn | |
Populus wyomingiana poplar | |
Stillingia casca Hickey 1977 spurge | |
Sloanea sp. Linnaeus | |
Alnus sp. Miller 1754 alder | |
Platycarya americana Hickey 1977 | |
Dombeya novimundi Hickey 1977 | |
cf. Schoepfia republicensis Berry 1929 | |
Apocynaceae "RR17" de Jussieu 1789 dogbane | |
Lauraceae "RR46" Jussieu 1789 laurel | |
cf. Magnoliales "RR12" Jussieu 1820 magnoliids | |
Cinnamomophyllum | |
Cinnamomophyllum "RR19" Kraeusel and Weyland 1950 |