Also known as Near Connanp Creek (mispelling by Carpenter 1996)
Where: Natrona County County, Wyoming (43.0° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 68.5° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
When: Belle Fourche Member ('Hailey Shales' Formation), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• Carpenter states Belle Fourch Shales, but Carnegie Museum collections data says Hailey Shales Formation
Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary, black lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the CM
Collection methods: quarrying
Primary reference: K. Carpenter. 1996. A review of short-necked plesiosaurs of the Western Interior, North America. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Abhandlungen 201(2):259-287 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 117845: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 27.09.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Plesiopleurodon wellesi n. gen. n. sp.
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