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

Also known as Steven's Site

Where: Wyoming (44.4° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 91.6° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Willwood Formatin 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 11400: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 13.08.2001, edited by John Burns

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
 Salviniales - Polypodiidae
Salvinia preauriculata Berry 1925 watermoss
Angiospermae
 Saxifragales - Hamamelidaceae
aff. Hamamelidaceae "sp.1" Brown 1818 witch-hazel
 Ranunculales - Menispermaceae
 Rosales - Ulmaceae
 Fagales - Betulaceae
Alnus "sp.1" Miller 1754 alder
 Sapindales - Sapindaceae
aff. Sapindaceae "samara" de Jussieu 1789 soapberry
sapindaceous samara
 Alismatales - Alismataceae
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood
Glyptostrobus europaeus Brongniart 1833 Chinese swamp cypress