Hidden Dome (Case site 5) (Cretaceous of the United States)

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
 Orectolobiformes - Orectolobidae
Cretorectolobus olsoni Case 1978 wobbegong