Where: Washaki County, Wyoming (44.1° N, 107.7° W: paleocoordinates 51.0° N, 75.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Teapot Sandstone Member (Mesaverde Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: G. R. Case. 1987. A new selachian fauna from the late Campanian of Wyoming (Teapot Sandstone Member, Mesaverde Formation, Big Horn Basin). Palaeontographica Abteilung A 197(Lfg. 1-3):1-37 [J. Kriwet/W. Glaeser/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 70268: authorized by Juergen Kriwet, entered by Wolfgang Glaeser on 20.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Chondrichthyes | |
"Hybodus montanensis" = Meristodonoides montanensis
"Hybodus montanensis" = Meristodonoides montanensis Case 1978 elasmobranch | |
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Pseudodontaspis herbsti n. gen. n. sp. sand tiger shark
Hypotodus grandis Case 1978 sand tiger shark
Odontaspis steineri n. sp. sand tiger shark | |
"Plicatolamna arcuata" = Archaeolamna kopingensis
"Plicatolamna arcuata" = Archaeolamna kopingensis Davis 1890 mackerel shark | |
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Squalicorax kaupi Agassiz 1843 crow shark | |
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Scapanorhynchus texanus Roemer 1852 goblin shark | |
"Ginglymostoma globidens" = Plicatoscyllium globidens
"Ginglymostoma globidens" = Plicatoscyllium globidens Cappetta and Case 1975 nurse shark | |
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Cretorectolobus olsoni Case 1978 wobbegong | |
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Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856 ray | |
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Protoplatyrhina renae Case 1978 guitarfish | |
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Rhinobatos casieri Herman 1977 guitarfish
Myledaphus bipartitus Cope 1876 guitarfish | |
Centrophoroides worlandensis n. sp.
Centrophoroides worlandensis n. sp. dogfish shark | |
Synechodus turneri n. sp.
Synechodus turneri n. sp. Case 1987 elasmobranch | |