Also known as PW 9514
Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.9° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 46.7° N, 92.0° 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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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 sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• Great Divide Basin; N shore Monument Lake; 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 28715: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Peter Wilf on 20.02.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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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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Lygodium kaulfussi Heer climbing fern Morphotype #RR07; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
Lygodium kaulfussi Heer climbing fern Morphotype #RR07a; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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Platycarya americana Hickey 1977 Morphotype #RR01; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
? Platycarya americana Hickey 1977 Morphotype #RR75; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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Alnus "RR14" Miller 1754 alder Morphotype #RR14; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
Alnus "RR14" Miller 1754 alder Morphotype #RR14a; 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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"Dicotyledonae "RR40"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "RR40"" = Dicotyledoneae Morphotype #RR40; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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cf. Schoepfia republicensis Berry 1929 Morphotype #RR44; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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Zingiberopsis isonervosa Hickey 1977 Morphotype #RR03; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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