S.L.Wing locality 826 (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as SLW8631, SLW873, SLW824, SLW825, USNM Locality 37588

Where: Wyoming (44.0° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 48.7° N, 90.9° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fort Union 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 11406: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 13.08.2001, edited by John Burns

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Polypodiopsida
  - Blechnaceae
Woodwardia gravida Hickey 1977
Angiospermae
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
"Carya antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora Newberry 1868
[=unid sp826-3]
 Fagales - Betulaceae
Alnus "sp.1" Miller 1754 alder
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
 Ranunculales - Menispermaceae
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
Cercidiphyllum genetrix Newberry 1868 katsura
 Saxifragales - Hamamelidaceae
aff. Hamamelidaceae "sp.1" Brown 1818 witch-hazel
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Phoebe "sp.1" Nees 1836 laurel
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood
Glyptostrobus europaeus Brongniart 1833 Chinese swamp cypress