Redwall area: Late/Upper Callovian - Middle Oxfordian, Wyoming
collected by University of Wyoming 2002

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Ophthalmosauridae
Ophthalmosaurus natans (Marsh 1879)
UW34653, partial skeleton in a concretion
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Natrona
Coordinates: 44.6° North, 104.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.4° North, 48.0° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic
10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Callovian - Middle Oxfordian
Age range of interval:165.30000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sundance Member:Redwater Shale
Stratigraphy comments: Specimen found 2.5m below the lower Camptonectes bed, which is less than 20m thick at this location.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:concretion
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:University of Wyoming Collection dates:July 2002
Metadata
Also known as:Icthyosaur locality
Database number:140543
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:J. Tennant
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-03-12 00:08:40 Last modified:2013-03-11 08:08:40
Access level:the public Released:2013-03-12 00:08:40
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
45529. J. A. Massare and H. A. Young. 2005. Gastric contents of an ichthyosaur from the Sundance Formation (Jurassic) of Central Wyoming. Paludicola 5(1):20-27 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]