Also known as EM 81-G
Where: Fremont County, Wyoming (42.3° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 48.1° N, 88.4° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fort Union Formation, Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; lithified, gray claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Reposited in the DMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• Bison Basin collection, IDs revised from Gemmill and Johnson 1997, Palaios by Kirk Johnson and Peter Wilf. Collected by Kirk Johnson and crew.
Primary reference: P. Wilf. 2000. Late Paleocene-early Eocene climate changes in southwestern Wyoming: Paleobotanical analysis. Geological Society America Bulletin 112(2):292-307 [P. Wilf/P. Wilf/P. Wilf]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 28645: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Peter Wilf on 20.02.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Platanus raynoldsi Newberry 1868 plane tree Morphotype #BB39; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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Corylites "FW01" Gardner 1887 birch Morphotype #FW01; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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"Dicotyledonae "BB53"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "BB57"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "BB53"" = Dicotyledoneae Morphotype #BB53; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
"Dicotyledonae "BB57"" = Dicotyledoneae Morphotype #BB57; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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| Beringiaphyllum cupanioides | |
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Beringiaphyllum cupanioides Manchester et al. 1999 Morphotype #FW44; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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