S.L.Wing thesis locality 15ME: Lostcabinian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Allantoidiopsis erosa leaf
Angiospermae - Fabales - Fabaceae
Canavalia diuturna leaf
Angiospermae - Fagales - Juglandaceae
Platycarya castaneopsis leaf
Angiospermae - Zingiberales - Zingiberaceae
Zingiberopsis isonervosa leaf Hickey 1977
Angiospermae
Dicotyledonae informal dicot III leaf
Dicotyledonae informal dicot XI leaf
Polypodiopsida - Schizaeales - Lygodiaceae
Lygodium kaulfussi leaf Heer
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Bighorn Basin
Coordinates: 44.0° North, 108.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.7° North, 90.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Ypresian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Early/Lower Eocene
*International age/stage:Lostcabinian
Key time interval: Lostcabinian
Age range of interval: 54.9 - 50.5 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Willwood
Regional section:Bighorn Basin
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified carbonaceous "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:wet floodplain Tectonic setting:intermontane basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression,original carbon
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Fifteenmile Crk. carbonaceous shale
Database number:11319
Authorizer:S. Wing Enterer:H. Sims, J. Burns
Modifier:S. Wing Research group:paleobotany
Created:2001-08-10 10:04:02 Last modified:2003-03-09 12:30:28
Access level:the public Released:2001-08-10 10:04:02
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]