Where: Park County, Wyoming (45.0° N, 108.9° W: paleocoordinates 51.9° N, 75.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• "uppermost Judith River Formation equivalent... fossiliferous stratum is a coarse dark-colored sandstone... Judith River lithology"; said to be Judithian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deltaic; sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: J. A. Pappas, B. R. O'Grady, and D. C. Parris. 2003. A Judithian microfaunal locality in Elk Basin, Park County, Wyoming. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(3, suppl.):85A [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 35367: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 07.12.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
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Ceratopsidae indet. Marsh 1888 ceratopsid | |
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid | |
Theropoda indet. theropod | |
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian | |
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Mammalia | |
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal | |
Amphibia | |
Amphibia indet. Linnaeus 1758 tetrapod | |
Actinopteri | |
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Myledaphus sp. Cope 1876 guitarfish |