Also known as Low Willwood
Where: Wyoming (44.0° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 48.9° N, 92.0° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: WIllwood Formation, Graybullian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; 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 11387: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 13.08.2001, edited by John Burns
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
"Dicotyledonae "dicot XX"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "dicot XX"" = Dicotyledoneae | |
Persites argutus Hickey 1977 laurel | |
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood | |
Polypodiopsida | |
"Cnemidaria magna" = Cyathea
"Cnemidaria magna" = Cyathea scaly tree fern |