Also known as site 115
Where: Big Horn County, Wyoming (45.0° N, 108.3° W: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 66.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Himes Member (Cloverly Formation), Middle Albian to Middle Albian (109.0 - 93.5 Ma)
• upper part of member = Ostrom's unit VII; 2-8 ft above Unit VI
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•D'Emic et al. 2019: In the mid–late Albian to early Cenomanian (ca. 109–98 Ma), sediment sourced from the east was deposited as the Himes Member and Greybull Sandstone.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Ostrom in 1963, 1967; reposited in the YPM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: J. H. Ostrom. 1970. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of the Bighorn Basin area, Wyoming and Montana. Peabody Museum Bulletin 35:1-234 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 50496: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.05.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Theropoda indet. theropod | |
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Deinonychus antirrhopus Ostrom 1969 maniraptoran | |
Acrocanthosaurus atokensis2 Stovall and Langston 1950 allosauroid UM 20796, a dorsal vertebral centrum, caudal vertebral neural arch, right and left pubes, right femur, proximal right fibula, and several fragments
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? Sauropelta sp., "Sauropelta edwardsi" = Sauropelta edwardsorum
? Sauropelta sp. Ostrom 1970 ankylosaur
"Sauropelta edwardsi" = Sauropelta edwardsorum Ostrom 1970 ankylosaur | |
? Sauropoda indet. sauropod | |
Mesosuchia indet.3 Huxley 1875 crocodilian YPM 5343, tooth; 5358, tooth; 5345, tooth; 5348, tooth; 5346, tooth; 5349, 2 teeth
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