Also known as paleobotanical site near vertebrate locality YPM67
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: pond; lithified mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression, original carbon
Reposited in the YPM
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 11500: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by John Burns on 17.08.2001, edited by Summer Ostrowski
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
"Leguminosae "sp. 1"" = Fabaceae
"Leguminosae "sp. 1"" = Fabaceae Lindley 1836 legume | |
Platanus guillelmae Göppert 1852 plane tree | |
Ginkgoopsida | |
Ginkgo adiantoides Unger 1845 ginkgo |