Also known as USNM locality 37584, SLW822
Where: Wyoming (44.0° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 48.9° N, 92.0° 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 11490: 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 | |
Phoebe "sp. 1" Nees 1836 laurel | |
Cornus hyperborea Heer 1871 dogwood | |
Hamamelidaceae "sp. 1" Brown 1818 witch-hazel | |
Alnus "sp. 1" Miller 1754 alder | |
"Dicotyledonae "dicot XXIV"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "unid sp822-2"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "unid sp822-3"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "unid sp822-4"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "dicot XXIV"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "unid sp822-2"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "unid sp822-3"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "unid sp822-4"" = Dicotyledoneae | |
Potamogeton "sp. 1" Linnaeus 1753 pondweed | |
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood
Glyptostrobus europaeus Brongniart 1833 Chinese swamp cypress |