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
Glyptostrobus europaeus Brongniart 1833 Chinese swamp cypress | |
Angiospermae | |
Cercidiphyllum genetrix Newberry 1868 katsura | |
Platanus raynoldsii Newberry 1868 plane tree | |
""Carya" antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora
""Carya" antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora Newberry 1868 | |
"Populus" nebraskana poplar | |
"Monocotyledonae "palm sp. 1"" = Monocotyledoneae
"Monocotyledonae "palm sp. 1"" = Monocotyledoneae | |
aff. Alismataceae "sp. 1" Ventenat 1799 |