ammonites
S.L. Wing locality 8612 (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as USNM locality 37562

Where: Wyoming (44.2° N, 107.8° W: paleocoordinates 49.4° N, 89.1° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fort Union Formation, Clarkforkian (56.8 - 55.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; lithified, carbonaceous shale

Preservation: adpression, original carbon

Reposited in the USNM

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] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11458: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by John Burns on 16.08.2001