L.J. Hickey locality DebeyaSite (Paleocene of the United States)

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
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Debeya "sp. 1" Miquel 1853
Ginkgoopsida
 Ginkgoales - Ginkgoaceae
Ginkgo adiantoides Unger 1845 ginkgo
Angiospermae
 Rosids - Moraceae
"Ficus" artocarpoides Lesquereux 1883 fig
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"Dicotyledonae "LJH n.sp.XXX"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "LJH n.sp.XXXI"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "LJH n.sp.XXX"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "LJH n.sp.XXXI"" = Dicotyledoneae
 Nymphaeales - Nymphaeaceae
Paranymphaea crassifolia Newberry 1935 water lily
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
Cercidiphyllum genetrix Newberry 1868 katsura
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanus raynoldsii Newberry 1868 plane tree
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Glyptostrobus europaeus Brongniart 1833 Chinese swamp cypress
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood