S.L. Wing locality 9144 (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as USNM locality 41551, SLW9144, carb shale at YPM98

Where: Wyoming (44.3° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 49.3° N, 91.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• 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 11476: 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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Angiospermae
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
 Saxifragales - Hamamelidaceae
Hamamelidaceae "sp. 1" Brown 1818 witch-hazel
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
Cercidiphyllum genetrix Newberry 1868 katsura
 Ranunculales - Menispermaceae
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Glyptostrobus europaeus Brongniart 1833 Chinese swamp cypress