Also known as USNM locality 37557
Where: Wyoming (44.2° N, 107.9° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 52.4° N, 77.6° W (Wright 2013)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fort Union Formation, Clarkforkian (56.2 - 54.9 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 11444: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by John Burns on 16.08.2001
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Glyptostrobus europaeus Brongniart 1833 Chinese swamp cypress | |
Angiospermae | |
Menispermites parvareolatus Hickey 1977 | |
Ampelopsis acerifolia Newberry 1868 |