Also known as MTC WY-05013

Where: Big Horn County, Wyoming (44.5° N, 107.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.9° N, 59.9° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Little Sheep Mudstone Member (Cloverly Formation), Aptian to Aptian (125.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• Unit V

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•D'Emic et al. 2019: Little Sheep Mudstone Member was deposited ca. 124–109 Ma in a time of low sediment supply.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; poorly lithified, gray claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by M. Carrano in 2005–2010; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), sieve,

Primary reference: M. P. J. Oreska, M. T. Carrano, and K. M. Dzikiewicz. 2013. Vertebrate paleontology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous), I: faunal composition, biogeographic relationships, and sampling. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(2):264-292 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 137577: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.12.2012, edited by Philip Mannion

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