Where: Wyoming (44.0° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 48.9° N, 92.0° 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
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 11467: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by John Burns on 17.08.2001, edited by Summer Ostrowski
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
Dombeya novimundi Hickey 1977 | |
Alnus "sp. 1" Miller 1754 alder | |
"Dicotyledonae "dicot III"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "dicot X"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "dicot XI"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "dicot XXV"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "dicot XXVIII"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "dicot XXXI"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "dicot XXXII"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "unid sp8912-2"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "unid sp8914-8"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "unid sp8914-9"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "dicot III"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "dicot X"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "dicot XI"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "dicot XXV"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "dicot XXVIII"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "dicot XXXI"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "dicot XXXII"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "unid sp8912-2"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "unid sp8914-8"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "unid sp8914-9"" = Dicotyledoneae | |
Glyptostrobus europaeus Brongniart 1833 Chinese swamp cypress | |
Pteridopsida | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Lygodium kaulfussi Heer climbing fern | |
"Cnemidaria magna" = Cyathea
"Cnemidaria magna" = Cyathea scaly tree fern |