DMNH 1162: Tiffanian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Metasequoia occidentalis seed/fruit Chaney 1951
Morphotype #BB51; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
Metasequoia occidentalis leaf Chaney 1951
Morphotype #FW04; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
Angiospermae - Cornales - Cornaceae
Cornus hyperborea leaf Heer 1871
Morphotype #FW34; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
Angiospermae - Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
Morphotype #BB21; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
Angiospermae - Laurales - Lauraceae
Morphotype #BB11; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
Angiospermae - Fagales - Betulaceae
Morphotype #FW01; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
Morphotype #BB23; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
Angiospermae - Fagales - Juglandaceae
"Carya" antiquorum leaf Newberry 1868
Morphotype #BB03; should be placed in Aesculus antiquorum; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
Angiospermae - Fabales - Fabaceae
Morphotype #BB37; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
Angiospermae - Malvales
Morphotype #BB38; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
Angiospermae - Vitales - Vitaceae
"Ampelopsis" acerifolia leaf (Newberry 1868)
Morphotype #FW14; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
Angiospermae
Morphotype #BB40; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
Morphotype #BB41; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
Morphotype #BB42; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
Morphotype #BB45; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
Morphotype #BB47; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
unclassified
Morphotype #BB20; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
Beringiaphyllum cupanioides leaf (Manchester et al. 1999)
Morphotype #FW44; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Fremont
Coordinates: 42.3° North, 108.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.1° North, 76.6° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Paleocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 1
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Late/Upper Paleocene
*Local age/stage:Tiffanian
Key time interval: Tiffanian
Age range of interval: 60.9 - 56.2 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Fort Union
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray lithified claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:wet floodplain Tectonic setting:intermontane basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:random
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:DMNH
Collection method comments: Bison Basin collection, IDs revised from Gemmill and Johnson 1997, Palaios by Kirk Johnson and Peter Wilf. Collected by Kirk Johnson and crew.
Metadata
Also known as:KJ 9435
Database number:28634
Authorizer:P. Wilf Enterer:P. Wilf
Modifier:P. Wilf Research group:paleobotany
Created:2003-02-20 17:29:11 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2003-02-20 17:29:11
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
7696. 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]

Secondary references:

8330 C. E. C. Gemmill and K. R. Johnson. 1997. Paleoecology of a late Paleocene (Tiffanian) megaflora from the northern Great Divide Basin. Palaios 12:439-448 [P. Wilf/P. Wilf/P. Wilf]