Where: Wyoming (44.2° N, 108.6° W: paleocoordinates 49.0° N, 91.5° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Willwood Formation, Lostcabinian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; lithified, carbonaceous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression, original carbon
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: S. L. Wing, J. Alroy, and L. J. Hickey. 1995. Plant and mammal diversity in the Paleocene to Early Eocene of the Bighorn Basin. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 115:117-155 [S. Wing/H. Sims/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 11326: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 13.08.2001, edited by John Burns
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Polypodiopsida | |
Lygodium kaulfussi Heer climbing fern | |
"Cnemidaria magna" = Cyathea
"Cnemidaria magna" = Cyathea scaly tree fern | |
Angiospermae | |
aff. Alismataceae "sp. 1" Ventenat 1799 | |