S.L.Wing thesis locality LHE: Graybullian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae - Oxalidales - Oxalidaceae
Averrhoites affinis leaf (Newberry 1868)
Angiospermae - Fagales - Fagaceae
Quercus greenlandica leaf
Angiospermae - Malvales - Sterculiaceae
Penosphyllum cordatum leaf (Ward 1885)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming
Coordinates: 44.0° North, 107.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.6° North, 89.9° West
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Ypresian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Early/Lower Eocene
*Local age/stage:Early/Lower Graybullian
Key time interval: Graybullian
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
Also known as:lower part of Lower Haplomylus-Ectocion Zone
Database number:11371
Authorizer:S. Wing Enterer:S. Ostrowski, J. Burns, H. Lindon
Modifier:S. Wing Research group:paleobotany
Created:2001-08-13 10:52:14 Last modified:2003-03-09 18:42:54
Access level:the public Released:2001-08-13 10:52:14
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]