USNM Loc. 43632 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as MTC WY-10027

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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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

•D'Emic et al. 2019: Little Sheep Mudstone Member was deposited ca. 124–109 Ma in a time of low sediment supply.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; concretionary, gray mudstone

• "Dark gray concretionary mudstone"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: concretion

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 137611: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.12.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dipnoi - Ceratodontidae
Ceratodus cf. guentheri Marsh 1878 lungfish
Reptilia
 Testudinata - Helochelydridae
Naomichelys speciosa Hay 1908 turtle
 Testudinata -
? Glyptops pervicax Hay 1908 turtle
 Testudines -
Testudines "indet. A" Batsch 1788 turtle
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
 Saurischia -
? Titanosauriformes indet. Salgado et al. 1997 sauropod
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Deinonychus antirrhopus Ostrom 1969 maniraptoran
 Ornithischia -
Ornithischia indet. Seeley 1888 ornithischian
Ankylosauria indet. Osborn 1923 ankylosaur
 Loricata - Pholidosauridae
cf. Pholidosauridae indet. von Zittel and Eastman 1902 crocodilian
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia "indet. A" Linnaeus 1758 clam