S.L. Wing locality 8612 (Paleogene of the United States)

Also known as USNM locality 37562

Where: Wyoming (44.2° N, 107.8° W: paleocoordinates 49.4° N, 89.1° W)

• 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

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 11458: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by John Burns on 16.08.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ginkgoopsida
 Ginkgoales - Ginkgoaceae
Ginkgo adiantoides Unger 1845 ginkgo
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood
Angiospermae
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
"Carya antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora
"Carya antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora Newberry 1868
[Juglandaceae sp.1 in part]
 Saxifragales - Hamamelidaceae
aff. Hamamelidaceae "sp.1" Brown 1818 witch-hazel