S.L. Wing thesis locality RR5 (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as River Road 5

Where: Wyoming (44.4° N, 108.2° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 52.2° N, 80.1° W (Wright 2013)

• 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 11398: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 13.08.2001, edited by John Burns

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
 Salviniales - Polypodiidae
Salvinia preauriculata Berry 1925 watermoss
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood
Angiospermae
 Poales - Typhaceae
aff. Typha "sp.1" Linnaeus 1753 bulrush
 Zingiberales - Zingiberaceae
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
aff. Juglandaceae "sp.2" Perleb 1818
[was jug sp.1]