Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.9° N, 108.9° W: paleocoordinates 50.4° N, 89.5° 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 USNM
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 129222: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Mike Donovan on 22.06.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
"Dicotyledonae "LL1"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "LL1"" = Dicotyledoneae | |
Celtis peracuminata hackberry
Chaetoptelea microphylla Newberry 1868 elm | |
Aesculus hickeyi Manchester 2001 soapberry | |
"Ficus" artocarpoides Lesquereux 1883 fig | |
"Ampelopsis" acerifolia Newberry 1868 | |
Lauraceae "LLL2" Jussieu 1789 laurel
Lauraceae "LLL1" Jussieu 1789 laurel
Persites argutus Hickey 1977 laurel | |
"Zizyphoides flabella" = Trochodendroides flabella, Cercidiphyllum genetrix
"Zizyphoides flabella" = Trochodendroides flabella
Cercidiphyllum genetrix Newberry 1868 katsura | |
Platanus raynoldsi Newberry 1868 plane tree | |
Bivalvia | |
Davidia antiqua Manchester 2002 clam | |
Beringiaphyllum cupanioides | |
Beringiaphyllum cupanioides Manchester et al. 1999 | |
Browniea serrata | |
Browniea serrata Manchester and Hickey 2007 |