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

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
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Angiospermae
 Fagales - Betulaceae
aff. Betulaceae "sp.1" Gray 1822 birch
 Oxalidales - Oxalidaceae
Averrhoites affinis Newberry 1868 wood sorrel
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
 Ranunculales - Menispermaceae
 Saxifragales - Hamamelidaceae
aff. Hamamelidaceae "sp.1" Brown 1818 witch-hazel
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanus raynoldsii Newberry 1868 plane tree
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"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
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Glyptostrobus europaeus Brongniart 1833 Chinese swamp cypress