Also known as PW 9437
Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.2° N, 108.9° W: paleocoordinates 45.9° N, 93.1° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Main Body Member (Wasatch Formation), Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 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; base of 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 28696: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Peter Wilf on 20.02.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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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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"Dicotyledonae "WM04"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "WM04"" = Dicotyledoneae Morphotype #WM04; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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| Dicotyledoneae | |
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Ternstroemites aureavallis Hickey 1977 Morphotype #FW29; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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| Polypodiopsida | |
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Allantodiopsis erosa Lesquereux 1878 Morphotype #RR32; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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