UW V-91009, Ray's Palate Locality (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Carbon County, Wyoming (41.9° N, 106.9° W: paleocoordinates 48.9° N, 82.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ferris Formation, Lancian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the UW

Primary reference: J. A. Lillegraven and J. J. Eberle. 1999. Vertebrate faunal changes through Lancian and Puercan time in southern Wyoming. Journal of Paleontology 73(4):691-710 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75280: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.10.2007, edited by Roger Benson

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata - Baenidae
Baenidae indet. Cope 1882 turtle
UW 27274
 Testudines - Adocidae
Adocus sp. Cope 1868 turtle
UW 27381; also UW 25180 listed by Hutchison & Holroyd (2002)
 Testudines - Pantrionychidae
"cf. Plastomeninae sp." = Plastomenidae, Plastomenus sp.
"cf. Plastomeninae sp." = Plastomenidae Hay 1902 turtle
UW 27383
Plastomenus sp. Cope 1873 turtle
UW 27391
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae sp. Gray 1825 softshell turtle
parts of both UW 27381 and 27383
 Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae
Basilemys sp. Hay 1902 turtle
UW 30528
 Loricata -
Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875 crocodilian
UW 27294 ("Leidyosuchus")
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Chasmosaurinae indet. Lambe 1915 ceratopsid
UW 27314 "(= Triceratops sp.)"
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosaurinae indet. Lambe 1918 hadrosaurine
UW 27309
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Saurornitholestes sp. Sues 1978 maniraptoran
UW 29002
Dromaeosaurus sp. Matthew and Brown 1922 maniraptoran
UW 27203
 Theropoda -
"Paronychodon lacustris" = Paronychodon
"Paronychodon lacustris" = Paronychodon maniraptoran
UW 26313
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Aublysodon mirandus Leidy 1868 tyrannosaurid
UW 27424
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825 gar
UW 27268
 Amiiformes - Amiidae
"Cyclurus fragosa" = Cyclurus fragosus
"Cyclurus fragosa" = Cyclurus fragosus Jordan 1927 bowfin
UW 27260
 Elopiformes - Phyllodontidae
Phyllodus toliapicus Agassiz 1839
UW 27216, 27217