Also known as site 118
Where: Big Horn County, Wyoming (45.0° N, 108.3° W: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 66.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Himes Member (Cloverly Formation), Middle Albian to Middle Albian (109.0 - 93.5 Ma)
• upper part of member = Ostrom's unit VII; 0-8 ft above Unit VI
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•D'Emic et al. 2019: In the mid–late Albian to early Cenomanian (ca. 109–98 Ma), sediment sourced from the east was deposited as the Himes Member and Greybull Sandstone.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Ostrom in 1963-1964; reposited in the YPM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: J. H. Ostrom. 1970. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of the Bighorn Basin area, Wyoming and Montana. Peabody Museum Bulletin 35:1-234 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 50498: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.05.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Naomichelys speciosa Hay 1908 turtle YPM 5385, right epiplastron; 9780, 8 shell fragments; 5433, pleural
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Crocodylia indet. crocodilian YPM 5445, caudal; 5344, 2 teeth; field no. 64-136, tooth; 5342, tooth; 5355, tooth; 5447, 3 teeth; 5382, caudal; 5359, 3 teeth; 5110, caudal;
Mesosuchia indet.3 Huxley 1875 crocodilian YPM 5354, tooth; 5381, atlas, 9 teeth, fragment; 5363, tooth; 5372, tooth; 5362, tooth; 5361, 2 teeth; 5364, 4 teeth; 5440, tooth; 5353, 8 teeth
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Tenontosaurus tilletti Ostrom 1970 ornithopod | |
? Sauropelta sp., "Sauropelta edwardsi" = Sauropelta edwardsorum
? Sauropelta sp. Ostrom 1970 ankylosaur
"Sauropelta edwardsi" = Sauropelta edwardsorum Ostrom 1970 ankylosaur | |
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Deinonychus antirrhopus Ostrom 1969 maniraptoran | |
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? Microvenator celer Ostrom 1970 maniraptoran | |
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