Where: Wyoming (45.0° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 51.5° N, 86.3° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fort Union Formation, Torrejonian (63.3 - 61.7 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: 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 11351: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 13.08.2001, edited by John Burns
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Debeya | |
Debeya "sp. 1" Miquel 1853 | |
Ginkgoopsida | |
Ginkgo adiantoides Unger 1845 ginkgo | |
Angiospermae | |
"Ficus" artocarpoides Lesquereux 1883 fig | |
"Dicotyledonae "LJH n.sp.XXX"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "LJH n.sp.XXXI"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "LJH n.sp.XXX"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "LJH n.sp.XXXI"" = Dicotyledoneae | |
Paranymphaea crassifolia Newberry 1935 water lily | |
Cercidiphyllum genetrix Newberry 1868 katsura | |
Platanus raynoldsii Newberry 1868 plane tree | |
Glyptostrobus europaeus Brongniart 1833 Chinese swamp cypress
Taxodium olrikii cypress
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood |