Also known as USNM locality#41548, SLW9141, WCS7
Where: Wyoming (44.3° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 49.1° N, 91.4° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Willwood Formation, Graybullian (55.8 - 50.3 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 11473: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by John Burns on 17.08.2001, edited by Summer Ostrowski
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Angiospermae | |
Alnus "sp. 1" Miller 1754 alder | |
""Carya" antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora
""Carya" antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora Newberry 1868 | |
Averrhoites affinis Newberry 1868 wood sorrel | |
aff. Typha "sp. 1" Linnaeus 1753 bulrush | |
Zingiberopsis isonervosa Hickey 1977 | |
Glyptostrobus europaeus Brongniart 1833 Chinese swamp cypress | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Equisetum "sp. 1" Linnaeus 1753 horsetail |