Also known as PW 9512
Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.5° N, 108.7° W: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 90.8° 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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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 28907: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Peter Wilf on 28.02.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Corylites "FW01" Gardner 1887 birch Morphotype #FW01; see Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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Averrhoites affinis Newberry 1868 wood sorrel Morphotype #RR41; see Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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Persites argutus Hickey 1977 laurel Morphotype #FW08,WM10; see Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
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