K.R. Johnson locality HorseValley#2: Tiffanian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Glyptostrobus europaeus (Brongniart 1833)
unclassified
Angiospermae - Proteales - Sabiaceae
Angiospermae - Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanus raynoldsii (Newberry 1868)
Angiospermae - Cornales - Nyssaceae
Angiospermae - Dipsacales - Caprifoliaceae
Viburnum asperum Newberry 1868
Angiospermae - Garryales - Eucommiaceae
Angiospermae - Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
Cercidiphyllum genetrix (Newberry 1868)
Angiospermae - Araceae
Porosia verrucosa (Lesquereux 1878)
Angiospermae - Magnoliales - Magnoliaceae
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming
Coordinates: 45.0° North, 109.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:53.9° North, 76.0° West (Wright 2013)
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Paleocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 1
*Period:Tertiary *Local age/stage:Tiffanian
Key time interval: Tiffanian
Age range of interval: 60.9 - 56.2 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Fort Union
Regional section:Bighorn Basin
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: siltstone
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
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:11361
Authorizer:S. Wing Enterer:S. Ostrowski, J. Burns
Modifier:S. Wing Research group:paleobotany
Created:2001-08-13 10:26:34 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2001-08-13 10:26:34
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]