Also known as Case Estuary Site 10
Where: Big Horn County, Wyoming (44.2° N, 107.8° W: paleocoordinates 51.1° N, 75.7° 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 70501: authorized by Juergen Kriwet, entered by Wolfgang Glaeser on 26.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Protoplatyrhina renae Case 1978 guitarfish | |
Myledaphus bipartitus Cope 1876 guitarfish | |
Ischyrhiza avonicola Estes 1964 ray
Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856 ray | |
Ptychotrygon boothi n. sp., Ptychotrygon ellae n. sp.
Ptychotrygon boothi n. sp. ray
Ptychotrygon ellae n. sp. ray | |
Brachaelurus bighornensis n. sp.
Brachaelurus bighornensis n. sp. carpet shark | |
Cretorectolobus olsoni Case 1978 wobbegong | |
Scapanorhynchus texanus Roemer 1852 goblin shark | |
Hypotodus grandis, Pseudodontaspis herbsti n. gen. n. sp., Odontaspis cheathami n. sp., Odontaspis steineri n. sp.
Hypotodus grandis Case 1978 sand tiger shark
Pseudodontaspis herbsti n. gen. n. sp. sand tiger shark
Odontaspis cheathami n. sp. sand tiger shark
Odontaspis steineri n. sp. sand tiger shark | |
"Plicatolamna arcuata" = Archaeolamna kopingensis
"Plicatolamna arcuata" = Archaeolamna kopingensis Davis 1890 mackerel shark | |
Synechodus turneri n. sp.
Synechodus turneri n. sp. Case 1987 elasmobranch | |
Centrophoroides worlandensis n. sp.
Centrophoroides worlandensis n. sp. dogfish shark | |
"Hybodus montanensis" = Meristodonoides montanensis
"Hybodus montanensis" = Meristodonoides montanensis Case 1978 elasmobranch | |
"Lissodus griffisi n. sp." = Lonchidion griffisi
"Lissodus griffisi n. sp." = Lonchidion griffisi Case 1987 elasmobranch |