Skeleton Coast, USNM 42041 (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.8° N, 108.8° W: paleocoordinates 50.4° N, 89.4° 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 UNSM

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 129223: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Mike Donovan on 22.06.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
Juglandaceae sp. Perleb 1818
  -
"Dicotyledonae "SC1"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "SC2"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "SC1"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "SC2"" = Dicotyledoneae
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
Cercidiphyllum genetrix Newberry 1868 katsura
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanus raynoldsi Newberry 1868 plane tree
Bivalvia
 Actinodontida - Cycloconchidae
Davidia antiqua Manchester 2002 clam
 Life -
Browniea serrata Manchester and Hickey 2007