Sheep Mountain, near Lander (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Wyoming (42.6° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 4.3° N, 35.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Tensleep Formation, Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 298.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by Donald Bell, N. H. Brown (with University of Missouri field group) in 1929

• University of Missouri

Primary reference: E. B. Branson and M. G. Mehl. 1932. Footprints records from the Paleozoic and Mesozoic of Missouri, Kansas, and Wyoming. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 43:383-398 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197983: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 05.12.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Captorhinomorpha -
Steganoposaurus belli n. gen. n. sp.
Steganoposaurus belli n. gen. n. sp. Branson and Mehl 1932 tetrapod
595 V. P. (holotype), "a slab marked by a consecutive series of 24 prints of right and left hind feet and a few indifferently preserved prints of the forefeet"