USNM 41311: Wasatchian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae - Zingiberales - Zingiberaceae
Morphotype #RR03; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
Angiospermae - Oxalidales - Oxalidaceae
Averrhoites affinis leaf (Newberry 1868)
Morphotype #RR41; see Table A3 of Wilf 2000 (reference 7696) for additional information
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Sweetwater
Coordinates: 41.3° North, 108.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.3° North, 82.1° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Ypresian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Early/Lower Eocene
*Local age/stage:Wasatchian
Key time interval: Wasatchian
Age range of interval: 54.9 - 50.5 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Wasatch Member:Main Body
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified carbonaceous siltstone
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:USNM
Collection method comments: Washakie Basin; ~288 m Washakie Basin reference section; NMNH Accession #OR420051
Metadata
Also known as:PW 9418
Database number:28700
Authorizer:P. Wilf Enterer: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:2003-02-03 00:00:00
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]