USNM 41319 (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as PW 9618

Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.7° N, 107.8° W: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 91.3° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ramsey Ranch Member (Wasatch Formation), Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; lithified, carbonaceous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Great Divide Basin; Latham area; 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 28704: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Peter Wilf on 20.02.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
 Cyatheales - Polypodiidae
"Cnemidaria magna" = Cyathea
"Cnemidaria magna" = Cyathea scaly tree fern
Morphotype #RR22; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
Angiospermae
  -
"Dicotyledonae "RR54"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "RR78"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "RR54"" = Dicotyledoneae
Morphotype #RR54; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
"Dicotyledonae "RR78"" = Dicotyledoneae
Morphotype #RR78; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information