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 | |
Ginkgo adiantoides Unger 1845 ginkgo | |
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood | |
Angiospermae | |
"Carya antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora
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aff. Hamamelidaceae "sp.1" Brown 1818 witch-hazel |