USNM Loc. 42159 (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Also known as MTC WY-04004

Where: Big Horn County, Wyoming (44.0° N, 107.5° W: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 65.9° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Himes Member (Cloverly Formation), Middle Albian to Middle Albian (109.0 - 93.5 Ma)

• Unit VI

•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; gray, green claystone

• "green-gray claystone"

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by M. Carrano in 2004; 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 137555: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.12.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
cf. Goniopholididae indet. Cope 1875 crocodilian
tooth
 Theropoda -
? Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
limb shaft section
 Saurischia -
? Titanosauriformes indet. Salgado et al. 1997 sauropod
tooth