Where: Washakie County, Wyoming (44.1° N, 107.8° W: paleocoordinates 51.0° N, 75.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Teapot Sandstone Member (Mesaverde Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by M. Siverson in 1988
• Repository: Lund University
Primary reference: M. Siverson. 1995. Revision of Cretorectolobus (Neoselachii) and description of Cederstroemia n. gen., a Cretaceous carpet shark (Orectolobiformes) with a cutting dentition. Journal of Paleontology 69:974-979 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 215800: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.11.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Cretorectolobus olsoni Case 1978 wobbegong |