Also known as Fort Union carbonaceous shale

Where: Wyoming (44.4° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 49.7° N, 89.9° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fort Union Formation, Clarkforkian (56.2 - 54.9 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 11356: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 13.08.2001, edited by John Burns

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