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Willwood Formation
Stratigraphic range: Thanetian-Ypresian (Clarkforkian-Bridgerian)
~56–48 Ma
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TypeGeological formation
Sub-unitsGray Bull beds, Sand Coulee beds, Sand Creek Facies, Wa-1 Zone
Lithology
PrimaryMudstone, shale
OtherSandstone, conglomerate
Location
Coordinates44°30′N 108°00′W / 44.5°N 108.0°W / 44.5; -108.0
Approximate paleocoordinates49°12′N 90°48′W / 49.2°N 90.8°W / 49.2; -90.8
RegionWillwood Formation Wyoming
CountryWillwood Formation USA
ExtentBighorn Basin
Type section
Named forShale, mudstone, limestone
Willwood Formation is located in the United States
Willwood Formation
Willwood Formation (the United States)
Willwood Formation is located in Wyoming
Willwood Formation
Willwood Formation (Wyoming)

The Willwood Formation is a sedimentary sequence deposited during the late Paleocene to early Eocene, or Clarkforkian, Wasatchian and Bridgerian in the NALMA classification.[1][2]

  1. ^ Willwood Formation at Fossilworks.org
  2. ^ Neasham & Vondra, 1972

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American Museum expedition of 1910 in Big Horn County, Wyoming, in the Willwood formation (early Eocene). Shufeldt, R.W. (1913). "Further studies of fossil...

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Wyoming. The horizon is Greybullian, middle Wasatchian (early Eocene), Willwood Formation, Bighorn Basin. Further specimens of Paracathartes were collected...

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agilis have been found in Utah and Wyoming (Willwood Formation of Big Horn County and the Lower Bridger Formation of Uinta County). It was the size of a wolf...

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(Testudines, Kinosternoidea) from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Willwood Formation, southeastern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology...

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David M. (1982). "A review of the Proteutheria and Insectivora of the Willwood Formation (Lower Eocene), Bighorn Basin, Wyoming". doi:10.3133/B1523. S2CID 127861247...

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teeth and dentary shape through time in notharctines from the Eocene Willwood Formation (Wyoming, United States) is published by O'Leary (2021). A study on...

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Rose, Kenneth D. (1972). "A New Tillodont from the Eocene Upper Willwood Formation of Wyoming" (PDF). Postilla. 155. Peabody Museum of Natural History...

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Chiroptera) and other vertebrates in freshwater limestones of the Willwood Formation, Clark's Fork Basin, Wyoming". University of Michigan Contributions...

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