Lur'd Leaves, USNM 42042 (Paleocene of the United States)

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

Bivalvia
 Actinodontida - Cycloconchidae
Davidia antiqua Manchester 2002 clam
Angiospermae
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"Dicotyledonae "LL1"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "LL1"" = Dicotyledoneae
 Vitales - Vitaceae
 Sapindales - Sapindaceae
Aesculus hickeyi Manchester 2001 soapberry
 Rosales - Ulmaceae
Chaetoptelea microphylla Newberry 1868 elm
 Rosids - Moraceae
"Ficus" artocarpoides Lesquereux 1883 fig
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanus raynoldsi Newberry 1868 plane tree
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
"Zizyphoides flabella" = Trochodendroides flabella
Cercidiphyllum genetrix Newberry 1868 katsura
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Lauraceae "LLL2" Jussieu 1789 laurel
Lauraceae "LLL1" Jussieu 1789 laurel
Persites argutus Hickey 1977 laurel
Browniea serrata
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Browniea serrata Manchester and Hickey 2007
Beringiaphyllum cupanioides
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Beringiaphyllum cupanioides Manchester et al. 1999