Cloverly (OMNH V62) (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Also known as Unit V

Where: Big Horn County, Montana (45.1° N, 106.9° W: paleocoordinates 44.1° N, 64.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• lower unit VII

•Unit V according to Cifelli and Davis 2015

•D'Emic et al. 2019: New data reported in this study suggest that deposition of the Cloverly Formation spanned the Valanginian–Cenomanian stages (ca. 140 Ma–98 Ma), a longer time interval than the commonly cited Aptian–Albian depositional timeframe. 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; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by R. L. Ciffelli in 1989

Collection methods: bulk,

• OMNH

•Fossils from locality V62 (Big Horn County, Wyoming), discovered by R. L. C. in 1989, were also collected solely by concentration methods.

Primary reference: R. L. Cifelli, J. R. Wible, and F. A. Jenkins, Jr. 1998. Triconodont mammals from the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Montana and Wyoming. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(1):237-241 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14380: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Matthew Carrano, Jonathan Tennant and Patricia Holroyd

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Salientia -
Anura indet.3 Fischer von Waldheim 1813 frog
 Caudata -
Caudata indet.3 Scopoli 1777 salamander
 Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Albanerpetontidae indet.2 Fox and Naylor 1982 tetrapod
OMNH 33517-33523
Reptilia
 Squamata -
Squamata indet.4 squamates
additional form(s); OMNH 30715-16, 23249
 Squamata - Paramacellodidae
cf. Paramacellodidae indet.4 Estes 1983 squamates
scincomorph lizard; OMNH 23255-56
Mammalia
 Theriamorpha -
Argaliatherium robustum n. gen. n. sp.1
Argaliatherium robustum n. gen. n. sp.1 Cifelli and Davis 2015 mammal
OMNH 61153, LMx preserving the protocone and lingual edges of the paracone and metacone
 Eutriconodonta - Triconodontidae
Triconodontidae indet. Marsh 1887 mammal