Where: Wyoming (44.0° N, 109.0° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 52.5° N, 79.0° W (Wright 2013)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Willwood Formation, Clarkforkian (56.2 - 54.9 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: 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 11378: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 13.08.2001, edited by John Burns
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Equisetum "sp.1" Linnaeus 1753 horsetail | |
Glyptostrobus europaeus Brongniart 1833 Chinese swamp cypress | |
Angiospermae | |
Paleonelumbo macroloba Knowlton 1930 water lily | |
Cercidiphyllum genetrix Newberry 1868 katsura | |
Meliosma longifolia Hickey 1977 | |
Platanus gracilis plane tree
Platanus raynoldsii Newberry 1868 plane tree | |
""Carya" antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora
""Carya" antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora Newberry 1868 | |
"Ficus" artocarpoides Lesquereux 1883 fig | |
"Dicotyledonae "LJH n.sp.X"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "LJH n.sp.XXIX"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "LJH magnolia sp.1"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "LJH magnolia sp.2"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae okra sp.1" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "LJH n.sp.X"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "LJH n.sp.XXIX"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "LJH magnolia sp.1"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "LJH magnolia sp.2"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae okra sp.1" = Dicotyledoneae | |
Viburnum cupanioides | |
""Viburnum" cupanioides" = Beringiaphyllum cupanioides
""Viburnum" cupanioides" = Beringiaphyllum cupanioides Manchester et al. 1999 |