12 mi NE of Worland (AMNH): Judithian, Wyoming
collected 1978
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
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Theria indet.
Parker and Haswell 1897
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Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Cimolomyidae
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Cimolomys clarki
Sahni 1972
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Washakie |
Coordinates: | 44.0° North, 108.0° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 50.9° North, 76.0° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late Cretaceous |
Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 | *Epoch: | Senonian |
Key time interval: | Judithian | ||
Age range of interval: | 83.6 - 72.1 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Mesaverde |
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | intraclastic,yellow poorly lithified argillaceous sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "friable, yellow channel sandstones with occasional stringers of clay galls and clay clasts" | |
Environment: | "channel" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Disassociated major elements: | many |
Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | bulk,sieve,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Museum repositories: | AMNH | Collection dates: | 1978 |
Metadata
Database number: | 14431 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1994-07-27 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2008-04-10 13:03:16 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-07-27 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
2237. | J. A. Lillegraven and M. C. McKenna. 1986. Fossil mammals from the "Mesaverde" Formation (Late Cretaceous, Judithian) of the Bighorn and Wind River basins, Wyoming, with definitions of Late Cretaceous North American Land-Mammal "Ages". American Museum Novitates 2840:1-68 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |