S.L. Wing thesis locality WCS8-2 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Wyoming (44.3° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 49.1° N, 91.3° 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

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 11496: 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
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
Cercidiphyllum genetrix Newberry 1868 katsura
 Saxifragales - Hamamelidaceae
Hamamelidaceae "sp. 1" Brown 1818 witch-hazel
 Zingiberales - Zingiberaceae
 Fagales - Betulaceae
Alnus "sp. 1" Miller 1754 alder
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Glyptostrobus europaeus Brongniart 1833 Chinese swamp cypress