S.L. Wing locality 8410 (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as USNM locality 37623

Where: Wyoming (44.4° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 49.3° N, 91.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• 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 11456: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by John Burns on 16.08.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Fagales - Betulaceae
Alnus "sp.1" Miller 1754 alder
 Rosales - Ulmaceae
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Equisetum "sp.1" Linnaeus 1753 horsetail
 Salviniales - Polypodiidae
Salvinia preauriculata Berry 1925 watermoss