Also known as MTC WY-06002
Where: Big Horn County, Wyoming (45.0° N, 108.3° W: paleocoordinates 44.5° N, 60.1° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Little Sheep Mudstone Member (Cloverly Formation), Aptian to Aptian (125.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• high in Unit V
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: pond; yellow, silty, carbonaceous claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by M. Carrano in 2006; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
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 137592: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866 | |
Reptilia | |
Ankylosauria indet. Osborn 1923 ankylosaur |