L.J. Hickey locality South of Airport (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as LJH7835

Where: Wyoming (44.5° N, 108.3° W: paleocoordinates 50.3° N, 87.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fort Union Formation, Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, original carbon

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 11478: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by John Burns on 17.08.2001, edited by Summer Ostrowski

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Vitales - Vitaceae
 Fagales - Betulaceae
Corylus insignis Heer 1871 hazel
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
Cercidiphyllum genetrix Newberry 1868 katsura