Also known as PW 9611

Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.5° N, 108.7° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 49.4° N, 82.0° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data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 28742: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Peter Wilf on 20.02.2003

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