Where: Wyoming (44.2° N, 108.5° W: paleocoordinates 49.0° N, 91.4° 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 11330: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 13.08.2001, edited by John Burns
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
"Dicotyledonae "dicot III"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "dicot III"" = Dicotyledoneae | |
Alnus "sp. 1" Miller 1754 alder | |
aff. Typha "sp. 1" Linnaeus 1753 bulrush | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Lygodium kaulfussi Heer climbing fern | |
Pteridopsida | |