S.L.Wing thesis locality HslUnit8 (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as WCS7

Where: Wyoming (44.0° N, 107.0° W: paleocoordinates 48.6° N, 89.9° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; 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 11363: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 13.08.2001, edited by John Burns

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
 Salviniales - Polypodiidae
Salvinia preauriculata Berry 1925 watermoss
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Equisetum "sp.1" Linnaeus 1753 horsetail
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Glyptostrobus europaeus Brongniart 1833 Chinese swamp cypress
Angiospermae
 Fagales - Betulaceae
Alnus "sp.1" Miller 1754 alder
 Oxalidales - Oxalidaceae
Averrhoites affinis Newberry 1868 wood sorrel
 Asterales - Asteraceae
Calycites polysepala Newberry 1868 daisy
 Saxifragales - Hamamelidaceae
aff. Hamamelidaceae "sp.1" Brown 1818 witch-hazel
 Zingiberales - Zingiberaceae