Also known as MTC WY-04020
Where: Big Horn County, Wyoming (44.7° N, 107.9° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 51.1° N, 63.2° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Himes Member (Cloverly Formation), Albian (113.2 - 100.5 Ma)
• Unit VI
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•D'Emic et al. 2019: In the mid–late Albian to early Cenomanian (ca. 109–98 Ma), sediment sourced from the east was deposited as the Himes Member and Greybull Sandstone.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; brown, sandy mudstone and white claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by M. Carrano in 2004; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), sieve,
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 137562: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.12.2012, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
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| Chondrichthyes | |
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Egertonodus sp. Maisey 1987 elasmobranch | |
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Hybodontoidea indet. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch | |
"Hybodus cf. parvidens" = Parvodus parvidens
"Hybodus cf. parvidens" = Parvodus parvidens Woodward 1916 elasmobranch | |
| Osteichthyes | |
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Osteichthyes indet. bony fish | |
| Mammalia | |
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| Reptilia | |
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"cf. Bernissartidae indet." = Bernissartiidae
"cf. Bernissartidae indet." = Bernissartiidae Dollo 1883 crocodilian | |
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cf. Goniopholididae indet. Cope 1875 crocodilian | |
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cf. Pholidosauridae indet. von Zittel and Eastman 1902 crocodilian | |
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Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian | |
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? Titanosauriformes indet. Salgado et al. 1997 sauropod
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
Tetanurae indet. Gauthier 1986 tetanuran theropod | |
| Aves | |
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| Reptilia | |
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Deinonychus antirrhopus Ostrom 1969 maniraptoran | |
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Ornithischia indet. Seeley 1888 ornithischian | |
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cf. Zephyrosaurus sp. Sues 1980 ornithischian | |
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Squamata indet. squamates | |
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? Glyptops pervicax Hay 1908 turtle | |
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Naomichelys speciosa Hay 1908 turtle | |
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Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle | |
| Amphibia | |
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Amphibia indet. tetrapod | |
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Anura indet. frog | |
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Caudata indet. Scopoli 1777 salamander | |
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| Osteichthyes | |
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Holostei indet. ray-finned fish
Amiiformes indet. Hay 1929 bowfin | |
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Actinopterygii indet. ray-finned fish | |