S.L. Wing thesis locality T2 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Wyoming (44.2° N, 108.5° W: paleocoordinates 49.0° N, 91.5° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tatman 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 11480: 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
 Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
Lygodium kaulfussi Heer climbing fern
Angiospermae
 Zingiberales - Zingiberaceae
 Alismatales - Alismataceae
Alismataceae "sp. 1" Ventenat 1799
 Malvales - Sterculiaceae
Dombeya novimundi Hickey 1977
 Fagales - Juglandaceae