Where: Fremont County, Wyoming (42.0° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 52.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Sundance Formation, Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, nodular, calcareous lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by S. Gray in 1926
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Shapleigh Gray and other University of Missouri geology students
Primary reference: M. G. Mehl. 1928. Apatodonosaurus, a new genus of ichthyosaurs from the Jurassic of Wyoming. Denison University Scientific Laboratories Journal 23(2):111-126 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 100139: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 30.11.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Apatodonosaurus grayi Mehl 1928 ichthyosaur |