YPM 63-18, Crooked Creek (Cretaceous to of the United States)

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

•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 -
 Theropoda - Ornithomimidae
Ornithomimidae indet.4 Marsh 1890 ornithomimid
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Deinonychus antirrhopus Ostrom 1969 maniraptoran
 Theropoda - Carcharodontosauridae
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
? Acrocanthosaurus atokensis2 Stovall and Langston 1950 allosauroid
UM 20796, scapulocoracoid
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
? Sauropelta sp., "Sauropelta edwardsi" = Sauropelta edwardsorum
? Sauropelta sp. Ostrom 1970 ankylosaur
"Sauropelta edwardsi" = Sauropelta edwardsorum Ostrom 1970 ankylosaur
 Saurischia -
Sauroposeidon proteles2 Wedel et al. 2000 sauropod
UM 20800, scapulocoracoid
Sauroposeidon proteles1 Wedel et al. 2000 sauropod
YPM 5294, 5449, 5100, 5126, 5152, 5123, UM 20800
 Loricata -
Mesosuchia indet.3 Huxley 1875 crocodilian
YPM 5343, tooth; 5358, tooth; 5345, tooth; 5348, tooth; 5346, tooth; 5349, 2 teeth
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian
YPM 5128-9, 2 centra; 5172, caudal; 5357, tooth