Also known as USNM locality 37722, Fifteenmile Crk. carbonaceous shale
Where: Wyoming (44.2° N, 108.6° W: paleocoordinates 49.0° N, 91.5° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Willwood Formation, Lostcabinian (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 11462: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by John Burns on 17.08.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Angiospermae | |
Dombeya novimundi Hickey 1977 | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
Eugenia americana myrtle |