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

Where: Wyoming (44.3° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 51.1° N, 84.9° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fort Union Formation, Puercan (66.0 - 63.3 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 11359: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 13.08.2001, edited by John Burns

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ginkgoopsida
 Ginkgoales - Ginkgoaceae
Ginkgo adiantoides Unger 1845 ginkgo
Angiospermae
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"Dicotyledonae "LJH n.sp.XXI"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "LJH n.sp.XXI"" = Dicotyledoneae
 Alismatales - Alismataceae
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanus raynoldsii Newberry 1868 plane tree
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
Cercidiphyllum genetrix Newberry 1868 katsura
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood
Debeya
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Debeya "sp.1" Miquel 1853