S.L.Wing thesis locality H (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as Hutchison Hill

Where: Wyoming (44.3° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 49.1° N, 91.4° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Willwood Formation, Graybullian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; carbonaceous mudstone

• same as pond

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 11360: 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
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Ginkgoopsida
 Ginkgoales - Ginkgoaceae
Ginkgo adiantoides Unger 1845 ginkgo
Angiospermae
 Fabales - Fabaceae
"aff. Leguminosae "sp.1"" = Fabaceae
"aff. Leguminosae "sp.1"" = Fabaceae Lindley 1836 legume
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
 Fagales - Betulaceae
aff. Betulaceae "sp.1" Gray 1822 birch
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
 Alismatales - Alismataceae
 Arales - Lemnaceae
 Violales - Flacourtiaceae
aff. Flacourtiaceae "sp.3" Richard and Candolle 1824
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanus brownii plane tree
Platanus gracilis plane tree
Platanus guillelmae Göppert 1852 plane tree
Platanus raynoldsii Newberry 1868 plane tree
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
Cercidiphyllum genetrix Newberry 1868 katsura
 Ranunculales - Menispermaceae
 Zingiberales - Zingiberaceae
Polypodiopsida
 Salviniales - Polypodiidae
Azolla "sp.1" Lamarck 1783
Salvinia preauriculata Berry 1925 watermoss