Also known as Lightning Bolt
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: pond; mudstone
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 11370: 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 | |
Salvinia preauriculata Berry 1925 watermoss | |
Equisetum "sp.1" Linnaeus 1753 horsetail | |
Glyptostrobus europaeus Brongniart 1833 Chinese swamp cypress | |
Angiospermae | |
Alismataceae "sp.1" Ventenat 1799 | |
Zingiberopsis isonervosa Hickey 1977 | |
Phoebe "sp.1" Nees 1836 laurel | |
Platanus gracilis plane tree
Platanus raynoldsii Newberry 1868 plane tree | |
Meliosma longifolia Hickey 1977 | |
Menispermites parvareolatus Hickey 1977 | |
aff. Hamamelidaceae "sp.1" Brown 1818 witch-hazel | |
Cercidiphyllum genetrix Newberry 1868 katsura | |
Populus meigsii poplar | |
Averrhoites affinis Newberry 1868 wood sorrel | |
aff. Juglandaceae "sp.2" Perleb 1818 | |
aff. Betulaceae "sp.1" Gray 1822 birch | |
Dombeya novimundi Hickey 1977 | |
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"Dicotyledonae "dicot VI"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "dicot XV"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "dicot XX"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "dicot VI"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "dicot XV"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "dicot XX"" = Dicotyledoneae | |
Ginkgoopsida | |
Ginkgo adiantoides Unger 1845 ginkgo |