Also known as PW 9415

Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.6° N, 108.6° W: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 90.7° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fort Union Formation, Clarkforkian (56.2 - 54.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; lithified, carbonaceous siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

• only dicot leaves censused; see corresponding non-census locality for full species list and additional comments

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 28899: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Peter Wilf on 28.02.2003

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