S.L.Wing thesis locality Cn1 (Eocene of the United States)

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: 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 11342: 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
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Angiospermae
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Persites argutus Hickey 1977 laurel
 Saxifragales - Hamamelidaceae
aff. Hamamelidaceae "sp. 1" Brown 1818 witch-hazel
 Zingiberales - Zingiberaceae
 Fagales - Betulaceae
Alnus "sp. 1" Miller 1754 alder
 Oxalidales - Oxalidaceae
Averrhoites affinis Newberry 1868 wood sorrel
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Glyptostrobus europaeus Brongniart 1833 Chinese swamp cypress
Polypodiopsida
 Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
Lygodium kaulfussi Heer climbing fern
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Equisetum "sp. 1" Linnaeus 1753 horsetail