Tuma (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as UCMP V-99220; MOR HC-583, UWBM C1103; UCMP V99220

Where: Garfield County, Montana (47.3° N, 107.1° W: paleocoordinates 54.1° N, 80.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Hell Creek Formation), Lancian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• within lower three-quarters of Hell Creek Formation from approximately 76.4 to 19.5 m below the Hell Creek–Tullock formational contact

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the UCMP, UWBM

Primary reference: D. G. DeMar, Jr. 2013. A new fossil salamander (Caudata, Proteidae) from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Hell Creek Formation, Montana, U.S.A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(3):588-598 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144500: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 08.05.2013, edited by Patricia Holroyd and Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Galagodon nordquistae4
UCMP 555332
Amphibia
 Caudata - Urodela
Habrosaurus prodilatus3 Gardner 2003 siren
Paranecturus garbanii DeMar 2013 mudpuppy
MOR 5375, UCMP and UWBM specimens (atlantes) and MOR 5344 (fragmentary trunk vertebra); author does not make it clear which specimens come from which locality
 Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Albanerpetontidae indet.3 Fox and Naylor 1982 tetrapod
Actinopteri
 Teleostei -
Teleostei "indet. U-4"1 Müller 1846
Osteoglossomorpha indet.1 Greenwood et al. 1966
= Coriops/Lopadichthys; UCMP 230677, centra of small size
 Hiodontiformes - Hiodontidae
Hiodontidae "indet. small morph"1
UCMP 230684, centra of small size
 Osteoglossiformes -
? Wilsonichthys sp.1 Murray et al. 2016
UCMP 230683, dentary; UCMP 230672, centra type BvA
Wilsonichthys aridinsulensis1 Murray et al. 2016
 Acanthomorphata -
"Acanthomorpha "indet. HC-1"" = Acanthomorphata1, "Acanthomorpha "indet. HC-2"" = Acanthomorphata1, "Acanthomorpha "indet. HC-4"" = Acanthomorphata1
"Acanthomorpha "indet. HC-1"" = Acanthomorphata1 Rosen 1973
"Acanthomorpha "indet. HC-2"" = Acanthomorphata1 Rosen 1973
UCMP 230665, abdominal centra
"Acanthomorpha "indet. HC-4"" = Acanthomorphata1 Rosen 1973
 Esociformes - Esocidae
Estesesox sp.1 Wilson et al. 1992
UCMP 230674, centrum type NvC; UCMP 230675, centrum type NvE
 Ostariophysi -
"Otophysi "indet. U-3/BvD"" = Otophysa1
"Otophysi "indet. U-3/BvD"" = Otophysa1
UCMP 230678, one anterior Weberian centrum (centrum type U3)
 Teleostei -
Chondrichthyes
 Orectolobiformes - Orectolobidae
Restesia americana2 Estes 1964 wobbegong
UCMP 191546, complete tooth; UCMP 191549, complete tooth
 Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Myledaphus pustulosus2 Cook et al. 2014 guitarfish
UCMP 191545, one denticle; UCMP 191547, complete tooth; UCMP 191548, one denticle; UCMP 191550, two complete teeth