Also known as PW 9436
Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.2° N, 108.9° W: paleocoordinates 46.6° N, 91.2° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fort Union Formation, Clarkforkian (56.2 - 54.9 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• Washakie Basin; immediately below Wasatch Fm; NMNH Accession #OR420051
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 28663: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Peter Wilf on 20.02.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Paleomyrtinaea "FW66" Morphotype #FW66; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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Averrhoites affinis Newberry 1868 wood sorrel Morphotype #RR41; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood Morphotype #FW04; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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Equisetum "FW21" Linnaeus 1753 horsetail Morphotype #FW21; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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