Also known as PW 9428
Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.7° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 91.8° 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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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; Tipton Buttes; 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 28710: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Peter Wilf on 20.02.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Lygodium kaulfussi Heer climbing fern Morphotype #RR07; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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Platycarya americana Hickey 1977 Morphotype #RR02; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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Hovenia cf. oregonensis buckthorn Morphotype #RR15; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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cf. Magnoliales "RR12" Jussieu 1820 magnoliids Morphotype #RR12; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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