Also known as PW 9439
Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.4° N, 108.8° W: paleocoordinates 46.2° N, 92.5° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Niland Tongue 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,
• Vermilion Creek Basin; 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 28739: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Peter Wilf on 20.02.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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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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Platycarya castaneopsis Morphotype #RR09; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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