12 mi NE of Worland (AMNH): Judithian, Wyoming
collected 1978

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
Theria indet. Parker and Haswell 1897
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae
Cimolomys clarki Sahni 1972
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]