Hanna Basin (Ferris Fm., general) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Carbon County, Wyoming (41.8° N, 106.6° W: paleocoordinates 48.8° N, 82.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Ferris Formation, Lancian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• basal part of formation, "conglomeratic zone"

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: C. F. Bowen. 1918. Stratigraphy of the Hanna Basin, Wyoming. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 108-L:227-235 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 165878: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle
 Ornithischia -
Ceratopsia indet. ceratopsian
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Triceratops sp. Marsh 1889 ceratopsid