Also known as WCS7
Where: Wyoming (44.3° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 49.1° N, 91.4° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Willwood Formation, Graybullian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; siltstone and sandstone
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 11338: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 13.08.2001, edited by John Burns
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Salvinia preauriculata Berry 1925 watermoss | |
Glyptostrobus europaeus Brongniart 1833 Chinese swamp cypress | |
Angiospermae | |
Averrhoites affinis Newberry 1868 wood sorrel | |
Populus meigsii poplar | |
aff. Juglandaceae "sp. 2" Perleb 1818 | |
Alnus "sp. 1" Miller 1754 alder | |
"Ampelopsis" acerifolia Newberry 1868 | |
"Dicotyledonae "dicot VI"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "dicot XX"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "dicot VI"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "dicot XX"" = Dicotyledoneae | |
Zingiberopsis isonervosa Hickey 1977 | |
Menispermites parvareolatus Hickey 1977 | |
aff. Hamamelidaceae "sp. 1" Brown 1818 witch-hazel | |
Platanus gracilis plane tree
Platanus raynoldsii Newberry 1868 plane tree | |
Meliosma longifolia Hickey 1977 |