Where: Wyoming (45.0° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 51.8° N, 85.2° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fort Union Formation, Puercan (66.0 - 63.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, carbonaceous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression, original carbon
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 11335: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 13.08.2001, edited by John Burns
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood
Taxodium olrikii cypress | |
Angiospermae | |
Nelumbo "sp. 1" Adanson 1763 lotus | |
""Carya" antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora
""Carya" antiquorum" = Hicoria antiquora Newberry 1868 | |
"Ficus" planicostata Lesquereux 1872 fig |