Lance General (DMNH loc. 982) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Niobrara County, Wyoming (43.2° N, 104.6° W: paleocoordinates 49.7° N, 79.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lance Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by K. Donald Lindsey and Richard K. Stucky (DMNH) in the 1970s; reposited in the DMNH

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: G. P. Wilson and J. A. Riedel. 2010. New specimen reveals deltatheroidan affinities of the North American Late Cretaceous mammal Nanocuris. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(3):872-884 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123570: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 26.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Deltatheroida - Deltatheridiidae
Nanocuris improvida Fox et al. 2007 metatherian
DMNH 55343, an incomplete right mandible