S.L. Wing locality 8612: Clarkforkian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Ginkgoopsida
- Ginkgoales
- Ginkgoaceae
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Ginkgo adiantoides leaf
(Unger 1845)
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Coniferales
- Cupressaceae
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Metasequoia occidentalis leaf
Chaney 1951
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Angiospermae
- Saxifragales
- Hamamelidaceae
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Angiospermae
- Fagales
- Juglandaceae
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Carya antiquorum leaf
Newberry 1868
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming |
| Coordinates: | 44.2° North, 107.8° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 52.4° North, 77.6° West (Wright 2013) | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | ||
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1-2 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Paleocene | *Local age/stage: | Late/Upper Clarkforkian |
| Key time interval: | Clarkforkian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 56.2 - 54.9 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Fort Union |
| Regional section: | Bighorn Basin |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified carbonaceous "shale" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | wet floodplain |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | adpression,original carbon |
| 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 |
| Museum repositories: | USNM |
Metadata
| Also known as: | USNM locality 37562 | ||
| Database number: | 11458 | ||
| Authorizer: | S. Wing | Enterer: | J. Burns |
| Modifier: | S. Wing | Research group: | paleobotany |
| Created: | 2001-08-16 13:06:55 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-08-16 13:06:55 |
| 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] |