Also known as Case Estuary Site 7
Where: Washakie County, Wyoming (43.7° N, 107.7° W: paleocoordinates 50.6° N, 75.8° 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 70489: authorized by Juergen Kriwet, entered by Wolfgang Glaeser on 25.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
"Lissodus griffisi n. sp." = Lonchidion griffisi
"Lissodus griffisi n. sp." = Lonchidion griffisi Case 1987 elasmobranch | |
"Hybodus montanensis" = Meristodonoides montanensis
"Hybodus montanensis" = Meristodonoides montanensis Case 1978 elasmobranch | |
Hypotodus grandis, Odontaspis steineri n. sp.
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 | |
Cretorectolobus olsoni Case 1978 wobbegong | |
Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856 ray
Ischyrhiza avonicola Estes 1964 ray | |
Protoplatyrhina renae Case 1978 guitarfish | |
Myledaphus bipartitus Cope 1876 guitarfish |