S.L.Wing thesis locality BCT4: Lostcabinian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae - Fagales - Betulaceae
Alnus informal sp. 1 leaf
Angiospermae - Poales - Typhaceae
aff. Typha informal sp. 1 axis
Angiospermae
Dicotyledonae informal dicot III leaf
Pteridopsida - Filicales
Filicales informal tatman fern leaf
Polypodiopsida - Schizaeales - Lygodiaceae
Lygodium kaulfussi leaf Heer
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming
Coordinates: 44.2° North, 108.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.0° North, 91.4° West
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Ypresian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Early/Lower Eocene
*Local 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
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
Database number:11330
Authorizer:S. Wing Enterer:S. Ostrowski, J. Burns
Modifier:S. Wing Research group:paleobotany
Created:2001-08-13 08:26:32 Last modified:2003-03-09 17:56:47
Access level:the public Released:2001-08-13 08:26:32
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]