S.L. Wing locality 9142 (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as USNM locality 41549, SLW9142, 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

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 11474: 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
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Polypodiopsida
 Cyatheales - Polypodiidae
"Cnemidaria magna" = Cyathea
"Cnemidaria magna" = Cyathea scaly tree fern
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Equisetum "sp. 1" Linnaeus 1753 horsetail
Angiospermae
 Oxalidales - Oxalidaceae
Averrhoites affinis Newberry 1868 wood sorrel
 Zingiberales - Zingiberaceae
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Glyptostrobus europaeus Brongniart 1833 Chinese swamp cypress