Also known as PW 956

Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.6° N, 108.6° W: paleocoordinates 47.0° 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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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 shale

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. Insect damage census site for Wilf and Labandeira 1999 and Wilf et al. 2001.Total collection size here includes earlier component (for Wilf 2000) without insect damage tally as well as insect damage tally (Wilf and Labandeira 1999, Wilf et. al 2001). See online supplement of Wilf et al. 2001 for insect damage data for each specimen in the insect damage census.

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 28900: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Peter Wilf on 28.02.2003

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