Where: Teton County, Wyoming (44.1° N, 110.4° W: paleocoordinates 51.6° N, 85.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pinyon Conglomerate Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Approx. 150 ft. above the base of the Pinyon Conglomerate
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lenticular, brown, green, sandy, carbonaceous conglomerate
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by M. C. McKenna & J. D. Love in 1969; reposited in the AMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: M. C. McKenna and J. D. Love. 1970. Local stratigraphic and tectonic significance of Leptoceratops, a Cretaceous dinosaur in the Pinyon Conglomerate, northwestern Wyoming. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 700(D):D55-D61 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 53824: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 14.09.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
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? Sauria indet. MacCartney 1802 diapsid | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam |