J&M Site, south of Rangely (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Also known as MWC locality number L-2012-13

Where: Rio Blanco County, Colorado (40.0° N, 108.8° W: paleocoordinates 47.5° N, 80.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Williams Fork Formation (Mesaverde Group), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• Lower part of the middle third of the Williams Fork Formation of the “Mesaverde Group” (Campanian), base of what is possibly “Sandstone C” of Noll (1988); updated in Brand et al. 2022 based on new sections to base of Sandstone C, unit 6

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: channel lag; sandstone

• Channel sandstone basal lag
• Brand et al, 2022: "All of the vertebrates from the J&M site were recovered from sandstone and conglomerate in the basal 0.5 m of our unit 6 .."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), chemical, sieve,

Primary reference: J. R. Foster and R. K. Hunt-Foster. 2015. First report of a giant neosuchian (Crocodyliformes) in the Williams Fork Formation (Upper Cretaceous: Campanian) of Colorado. Cretaceous Research 55:66-73 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167302: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 11.03.2015, edited by Patricia Holroyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Actinopterygii -
Actinopterygii indet. Cope 1887 ray-finned fish
MWC 8857, 9593
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825 gar
MWC 8223
 Amiiformes - Amiidae
cf. Melvius sp. Bryant 1988 bowfin
MWC 8867, 8888
 Elopiformes - Phyllodontidae
Paralbula casei Estes 1969
MWC 8855, 8856, 8890
 Neopterygii -
Pycnodontiformes indet. Berg 1937
MWC 8873
Reptilia
 Loricata -
Neosuchia indet. Clark 1988 crocodilian
MWC 8240, a large partial osteoderm
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
cf. Brachychampsa sp. Gilmore 1911 crocodilian
MWC 9577, 9578, 9579, 9592
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. hadrosaurid
MWC 8896
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran
MWC 8872
cf. Richardoestesia sp. Currie et al. 1990 maniraptoran
MWC 8865
 Squamata - Chamopsiidae
Peneteius sp. Estes 1969 squamates
MWC 8871
Mammalia
 Multituberculata -
Multituberculata indet. multituberculate
MWC 8863
 Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae
Meniscoessus sp. Cope 1882 multituberculate
MWC 8848
 Multituberculata - Cimolodontidae
cf. Cimolodon nitidus Marsh 1889 multituberculate
MWC 8860
 Tribosphenida - Pediomyidae
? Leptalestes cooki Clemens 1966 metatherian
MWC 8859
Amphibia
 Amphibia -
Amphibia indet. tetrapod
MWC 9969
Osteichthyes
 Dipnoi -
Dipnoi indet. lungfish
MWC 8885
Chondrichthyes
 Orectolobiformes - Hemiscylliidae
cf. Chiloscyllium sp. Müller and Henle 1837 carpet shark
MWC 8850, 9576, 9968
 Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae
Cantioscyllium markaguntensis nurse shark
MWC 8866
 Rajiformes -
Pseudomyledaphus madseni Kirkland et al. 2013 guitarfish
MWC 8868, 9589, 9590, 9966
 Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Myledaphus bipartitus Cope 1876 guitarfish
MWC 8887, 9591
 Batoidea -
Cristomylus sp. Kirkland et al. 2013 ray
MWC 8886, 9588
 Hybodontiformes - Lonchidiidae
Lonchidiidae indet. Herman 1977 elasmobranch
MWC 9800
Lonchidion griffisi Case 1987 elasmobranch
MWC 8851, 9580, 9581, 9582, 9583, 9584, 9585, 9967