Where: New Mexico (36.7° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 93.4° W)

When: Wasatch Formation, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• Horizon about 200 feet above the top of Bauer's "Basal Wasatch Conglomerate Sandstone"

•"San Jose Basin"

Environment/lithology: fluvial; siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Collected by Harvey Bassler and J.B. Reeside, Jr. on July 16, 1917

Primary reference: R. W. Brown. 1962. Paleocene flora of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 375:1-119 [P. Wilf/J. Sessa/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 53161: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 06.09.2005

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