Also known as MTC WY-10033
Where: Carbon County, Montana (45.2° N, 108.8° W: paleocoordinates 44.8° N, 60.5° 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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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)
• Unit V
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; gray, red mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by M. Carrano in 2010; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: surface (float),
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 137617: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Ornithischia indet. Seeley 1888 ornithischian
Tenontosaurus tilletti Ostrom 1970 ornithopod | |
Naomichelys speciosa Hay 1908 turtle | |
Testudines "indet. A" Batsch 1788 turtle
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle | |
? Glyptops pervicax Hay 1908 turtle |