K.R. Johnson locality BirdTrackSand: Torrejonian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales - Equisetaceae
Angiospermae - Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
Cercidiphyllum genetrix leaf (Newberry 1868)
Angiospermae - Rosales - Rhamnaceae
Rhamnus cleburni leaf Lesquereux 1872
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming
Coordinates: 45.0° North, 109.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:55.1° North, 73.3° West (Wright 2013)
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Paleocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 1
*Period:Tertiary *Local age/stage:Torrejonian
Key time interval: Torrejonian
Age range of interval: 63.8 - 60.9 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Fort Union
Regional section:Bighorn Basin
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:"cross stratification" sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression,original carbon
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:11332
Authorizer:S. Wing Enterer:S. Ostrowski, J. Burns
Modifier:S. Wing Research group:paleobotany
Created:2001-08-13 08:31:03 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2001-08-13 08:31:03
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
4163. 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]