USNM Loc. 43420: Aptian - Albian, Wyoming
collected by M. Carrano 2008

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Osteichthyes indet. (Huxley 1880)
4 specimens
Actinopterygii
Actinopterygii indet. Cope 1887
1 specimen
Actinopteri
Holostei indet. (Müller 1846)
1 specimen
Actinopteri - Semionotiformes
Semionotiformes indet. Arambourg and Bertin 1958
1 specimen
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Anura informal indet. A (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
1 specimen
Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
1 specimen
Reptilia
Naomichelys speciosa Hay 1908
15 specimens
cf. Atoposauridae indet. (Gervais 1871)
17 specimens
    = Mesoeucrocodylia indet. Whetstone and Whybrow 1983
Tennant et al. 2016
Reptilia - Goniopholididae
cf. Goniopholididae indet. Cope 1875
2 specimens
Reptilia
cf. Pholidosauridae indet. (von Zittel and Eastman 1902)
11 specimens
Reptilia - Bernissartiidae
cf. Bernissartidae indet. Dollo 1883
1 specimen
corrected as Bernissartiidae
Reptilia
Theropoda informal indet. A (Marsh 1881)
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Park
Coordinates: 44.4° North, 109.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.1° North, 61.0° West
Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data
Altitude:1686 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Key time interval:Aptian - Albian
Age range of interval:121.40000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cloverly Member:Little Sheep Mudstone
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Unit V

D'Emic et al. 2019: Little Sheep Mudstone Member was deposited ca. 124–109 Ma in a time of low sediment supply.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,green claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "Green-gray flaggy claystone"
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Fragmentation:occasional
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,surface (float),sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Collectors:M. Carrano Collection dates:2008
Metadata
Also known as:MTC WY-08007
Database number:137595
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-12-18 05:58:34 Last modified:2022-01-27 06:43:52
Access level:the public Released:2012-12-18 05:58:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

44000. M. P. J. Oreska, M. T. Carrano, and K. M. Dzikiewicz. 2013. Vertebrate paleontology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous), I: faunal composition, biogeographic relationships, and sampling. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(2):264-292 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

79303 M. D. D’Emic, B. Z. Foreman, N. A. Jud, B. B. Britt, M. Schmitz and J. L. Crowley. 2019. Chronostratigraphic Revision of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Western Interior, USA). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 60(1):3-40 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham/G. Varnham]
59838 J. P. Tennant, P. D. Mannion, and P. Upchurch. 2016. Evolutionary relationships and systematics of Atoposauridae (Crocodylomorpha: Neosuchia): implications for the rise of Eusuchia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177:854-936 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]