Also known as Rain Cloud, WCS7
Where: Wyoming (44.3° N, 108.1° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 52.0° N, 80.0° W (Wright 2013)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Willwood Formation, Graybullian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; lithified 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 11394: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 13.08.2001, edited by John Burns
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Angiospermae | |
aff. Betulaceae "sp.1" Gray 1822 birch | |
Averrhoites affinis Newberry 1868 wood sorrel | |
Populus meigsii poplar | |
Menispermites parvareolatus Hickey 1977 | |
aff. Hamamelidaceae "sp.1" Brown 1818 witch-hazel | |
Platanus gracilis plane tree
Platanus raynoldsii Newberry 1868 plane tree | |
"Dicotyledonae "dicot IV"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "dicot VI"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "dicot XXI"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "dicot XXVI"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "dicot IV"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "dicot VI"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "dicot XXI"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "dicot XXVI"" = Dicotyledoneae | |
Glyptostrobus europaeus Brongniart 1833 Chinese swamp cypress |