Also known as MT WY-04024
Where: Big Horn County, Wyoming (44.5° N, 107.9° W: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 59.9° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• outcrop-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.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, gray, white claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by M. Carrano in 2004–2010; reposited in the UNSM
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
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 137566: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Ornithischia indet. Seeley 1888 ornithischian
Ankylosauria indet. Osborn 1923 ankylosaur | |
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
Tetanurae indet. Gauthier 1986 tetanuran theropod | |
Deinonychus antirrhopus Ostrom 1969 maniraptoran | |
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? Titanosauriformes indet. Salgado et al. 1997 sauropod | |
cf. Pholidosauridae indet. von Zittel and Eastman 1902 crocodilian | |
Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian | |
Testudines "indet. A" Batsch 1788 turtle
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Naomichelys speciosa Hay 1908 turtle | |
? Glyptops pervicax Hay 1908 turtle | |
Malacostraca | |
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