Also known as Case Estuary Site 5
Where: Washakie County, Wyoming (43.7° N, 107.7° W: paleocoordinates 50.6° N, 75.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Teapot Sandstone Member (Mesaverde Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: G. R. Case. 1987. A new selachian fauna from the late Campanian of Wyoming (Teapot Sandstone Member, Mesaverde Formation, Big Horn Basin). Palaeontographica Abteilung A 197(Lfg. 1-3):1-37 [J. Kriwet/W. Glaeser/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 70455: authorized by Juergen Kriwet, entered by Wolfgang Glaeser on 23.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Synechodus turneri n. sp.
Synechodus turneri n. sp. Case 1987 elasmobranch | |
Centrophoroides worlandensis n. sp.
Centrophoroides worlandensis n. sp. dogfish shark | |
"Plicatolamna arcuata" = Archaeolamna kopingensis
"Plicatolamna arcuata" = Archaeolamna kopingensis Davis 1890 mackerel shark | |
Hypotodus grandis, Odontaspis cheathami n. sp., Odontaspis steineri n. sp., Pseudodontaspis herbsti n. gen. n. sp.
Hypotodus grandis Case 1978 sand tiger shark
Odontaspis cheathami n. sp. sand tiger shark
Odontaspis steineri n. sp. sand tiger shark
Pseudodontaspis herbsti n. gen. n. sp. sand tiger shark | |
Squalicorax kaupi Agassiz 1843 crow shark | |
Scapanorhynchus texanus Roemer 1852 goblin shark | |
Chiloscyllium missouriense Case 1979 carpet shark | |
Brachaelurus bighornensis n. sp.
Brachaelurus bighornensis n. sp. carpet shark | |
"Cretorectolobus olsoni" = Cretorectolobus olsoni, "Eucrossorhinus microcuspidatus" = Cretorectolobus olsoni
"Cretorectolobus olsoni" = Cretorectolobus olsoni Case 1978 wobbegong
"Eucrossorhinus microcuspidatus" = Cretorectolobus olsoni Case 1978 wobbegong | |
Scyliorhinus tensleepensis n. sp.
Scyliorhinus tensleepensis n. sp. cat shark | |
Archaeotriakis ornatus n. sp. hound shark
Archaeotriakis rochelleae Case 1978 hound shark | |
Squatirhina roessingi n. sp.
Squatirhina roessingi n. sp. Case 1987 ray | |
Ischyrhiza avonicola Estes 1964 ray
Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856 ray
Ankistrorhynchus washakiensis n. sp. ray | |
Ptychotrygon boothi n. sp., Ptychotrygon ellae n. sp.
Ptychotrygon boothi n. sp. ray
Ptychotrygon ellae n. sp. ray | |
Protoplatyrhina renae Case 1978 guitarfish | |
Myledaphus bipartitus Cope 1876 guitarfish
Rhinobatos casieri Herman 1977 guitarfish | |
"Lissodus griffisi n. sp." = Lonchidion griffisi
"Lissodus griffisi n. sp." = Lonchidion griffisi Case 1987 elasmobranch | |
"Hybodus montanensis" = Meristodonoides montanensis, Hybodus wyomingensis n. sp.
"Hybodus montanensis" = Meristodonoides montanensis Case 1978 elasmobranch
Hybodus wyomingensis n. sp. elasmobranch |