Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.7° N, 108.6° W: paleocoordinates 47.3° N, 90.2° 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

• 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 129224: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Mike Donovan on 22.06.2012

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