Also known as MTC WY-10023
Where: Carbon County, Montana (45.2° N, 108.8° W: paleocoordinates 45.1° N, 57.8° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Little Sheep Mudstone Member (Cloverly Formation), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)
• low in Unit V
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; gray mudstone
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by M. Carrano in 2010; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: surface (float),
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 137609: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod | |
Testudines "indet. A" Batsch 1788 turtle
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle | |
? Glyptops pervicax Hay 1908 turtle | |
Osteichthyes | |
Ceratodus frazieri Ostrom 1970 lungfish |