Also known as USNM Locality#37625, SLW8412, River Road 2
Where: Wyoming (44.4° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 91.0° 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
Reposited in the USNM
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 11396: 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 | |
Calycites polysepala Newberry 1868 daisy | |
Cercidiphyllum genetrix Newberry 1868 katsura | |
""Carya" antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora
""Carya" antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora Newberry 1868 | |
"Dicotyledonae "palm sp.1"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "unid sp826-3"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "unid sp826-5"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "unid sp873-1"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "unid sp8412-1"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "palm sp.1"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "unid sp826-3"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "unid sp826-5"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "unid sp873-1"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "unid sp8412-1"" = Dicotyledoneae | |
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood
Glyptostrobus europaeus Brongniart 1833 Chinese swamp cypress |