USNM Loc. 42161 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as MTC WY-04006

Where: Big Horn County, Wyoming (44.0° N, 107.5° W: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 62.7° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Himes Member (Cloverly Formation), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• low in Unit VI

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; gray mudstone

• "gray mudstone"

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by M. Carrano in 2004; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 137559: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.12.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Ornithischia indet. Seeley 1888 ornithischian
ossified tendon
 Testudines -
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
ilium