S.L.Wing thesis locality FUCSI: Clarkforkian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Metasequoia occidentalis leaf Chaney 1951
Angiospermae - Fagales - Betulaceae
Alnus informal sp.1 leaf Miller 1754
Angiospermae - Saxifragales - Hamamelidaceae
aff. Hamamelidaceae informal sp. 1 leaf Brown 1818
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming
Coordinates: 44.4° North, 108.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.7° North, 89.9° West
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1-2
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Paleocene
*Local age/stage:Clarkforkian
Key time interval:Clarkforkian
Age range of interval:56.20000 - 54.90000 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
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
Also known as:Fort Union carbonaceous shale
Database number:11356
Authorizer:S. Wing Enterer:S. Ostrowski, J. Burns
Modifier:S. Wing Research group:paleobotany
Created:2001-08-13 10:11:00 Last modified:2003-03-09 18:14:03
Access level:the public Released:2001-08-13 10:11:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
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]