Also known as carb shale near vertebrate locality YPM320
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: fine channel fill; lithified, carbonaceous shale
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 11506: 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 | |
Cercidiphyllum genetrix Newberry 1868 katsura | |
Platanus guillelmae Göppert 1852 plane tree | |
Zingiberopsis isonervosa Hickey 1977 | |
Averrhoites affinis Newberry 1868 wood sorrel | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Salvinia preauriculata Berry 1925 watermoss |