L.J. Hickey locality Bugger to get to (Cedar Mtn.) (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Wyoming (45.0° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 51.8° N, 85.2° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fort Union Formation, Puercan (66.0 - 63.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: 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 11340: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 13.08.2001, edited by John Burns

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Glyptostrobus europaeus Brongniart 1833 Chinese swamp cypress
Angiospermae
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
Cercidiphyllum genetrix Newberry 1868 katsura
 Garryales - Eucommiaceae
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanus raynoldsii Newberry 1868 plane tree
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
""Carya" antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora
""Carya" antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora Newberry 1868
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
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"Monocotyledonae "palm sp. 1"" = Monocotyledoneae
"Monocotyledonae "palm sp. 1"" = Monocotyledoneae
 Alismatales - Alismataceae