S.L. Wing locality 8917 (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as SLW8917

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 11469: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by John Burns on 17.08.2001, edited by Summer Ostrowski

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
 Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
 Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
Lygodium kaulfussi Heer climbing fern
Angiospermae
 Malvales - Sterculiaceae
Dombeya novimundi Hickey 1977
 Fagales - Betulaceae
Alnus "sp. 1" Miller 1754 alder
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
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"Dicotyledonae "dicot III"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "dicot X"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "dicot XI"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "dicot XXXI"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "dicot III"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "dicot X"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "dicot XI"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "dicot XXXI"" = Dicotyledoneae
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Glyptostrobus europaeus Brongniart 1833 Chinese swamp cypress