Fox Mesa (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as USNM PAL 720475

Where: Big Horn County, Wyoming (44.5° N, 107.9° W: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 53.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Morrison Formation, Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; green, red, silty claystone

• "floodplain succession"
• "red and green mottled silty claystone"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by E. Kvale in 1997; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical, sieve,

Primary reference: M. Brett-Surman, S. Jabo, P. A. Kroehler, M. T. Carrano, and E. P. Kvale. 2005. A new microvertebrate assemblage from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, including mammals, theropods, and sphenodontians. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(3, suppl.):39A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 55333: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.10.2005, edited by Emma Dunne

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Allotheria -
Symmetrodonta indet. Simpson 1925 symmetrodont
Multituberculata indet. Cope 1884 multituberculate
 Pantotheria -
Eupantotheria indet. Kermack and Musset 1958 mammal
Reptilia
 Lepidosauria -
 Eosuchia -
Opisthiamimus gregori n. gen. n. sp.
Opisthiamimus gregori n. gen. n. sp. DrMar et al. 2022 lepidosaur
Holotype: USNM PAL 722041, an articulated partial skull and skeleton
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet. ornithopod
eggshell
 Theropoda -