Where: Wyoming (45.0° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 50.4° N, 90.1° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fort Union Formation, Clarkforkian (56.2 - 54.9 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 11352: 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 | |
Glyptostrobus europaeus Brongniart 1833 Chinese swamp cypress
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood | |
Magnoliopsida | |
Quereuxia angulata Newberry 1953 | |
Angiospermae | |
Persites argutus Hickey 1977 laurel | |
Porosia verrucosa Lesquereux 1878 | |
Cercidiphyllum genetrix Newberry 1868 katsura | |
Viburnum asperum Newberry 1868 honeysuckle | |
Cornus nebrascensis Schimper 1874 dogwood
Cornus hyperborea Heer 1871 dogwood | |
""Dicotyledonae" "LJH n.sp.XX"" = Dicotyledoneae
""Dicotyledonae" "LJH n.sp.XX"" = Dicotyledoneae | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
Paraternstroemia hyphovenosa Hickey 1977 tea | |
Ternstroemites "n.sp.1" Berry 1916
Ternstroemites aureavallis Hickey 1977 | |
Angiospermae | |
Stillingia casca Hickey 1977 spurge | |
Averrhoites affinis Newberry 1868 wood sorrel | |
aff. Juglandaceae "sp. 2" Perleb 1818
Pterocarya glabra wingnut
"Carya antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora Newberry 1868 | |
Penosphyllum cordatum Ward 1885 | |
Ampelopsis acerifolia Newberry 1868 | |
""Monocotyledonae" "palm sp. 1"" = Monocotyledoneae
""Monocotyledonae" "palm sp. 1"" = Monocotyledoneae | |
Viburnum cupanioides | |
"Viburnum cupanioides" = Beringiaphyllum cupanioides
"Viburnum cupanioides" = Beringiaphyllum cupanioides Manchester et al. 1999 |