Barwin Quarry (AMNH) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Natrona County, Wyoming (43.2° N, 107.1° W: paleocoordinates 50.0° N, 75.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mesaverde Formation, Judithian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• now dated to upper middle Campanian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; lithified, ferruginous, pebbly conglomerate and poorly lithified, yellow, argillaceous sandstone

• "yellowish to golden channel sandstone...richest fossil-bearing level is within a basal ironstone-cemented pebble conglomerate and throughout the overlying 2 m of more friable, yellowish sanstone. Fossils are seen both as isolated occurrences in massively cross-bedded sandstones and within concentrations of clay-gall stringers along thin bedding planes."

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by M. McKenna in 1961, 1966, 1970; reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• collected 1961, 1966, 1970

Primary reference: J. A. Lillegraven and M. C. McKenna. 1986. Fossil mammals from the "Mesaverde" Formation (Late Cretaceous, Judithian) of the Bighorn and Wind River basins, Wyoming, with definitions of Late Cretaceous North American Land-Mammal "Ages". American Museum Novitates 2840:1-68 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 14433: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

• exactly the same level as Fales RocksNISP 111 (based on catalog numbers)
Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Lambeosaurinae indet.2 Parks 1923 lambeosaurine
Hadrosaurinae indet.2 Lambe 1918 hadrosaurine
 Theropoda -
Paronychodon lacustris2 Cope 1876 maniraptoran
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosauridae indet.2 Osborn 1906 tyrannosaurid
Mammalia
 Allotheria -
Multituberculata indet. Cope 1884 multituberculate
said to be a new genus
 Multituberculata -
Paracimexomys priscus Lillegraven 1969 multituberculate
 Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae
Cimolomys clarki Sahni 1972 multituberculate
Meniscoessus intermedius Fox 1976 multituberculate
 Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
"Mesodma primaeva" = Filikomys primaevus, Mesodma sp.
"Mesodma primaeva" = Filikomys primaevus Lambe 1902 multituberculate
Mesodma sp. Jepsen 1940 multituberculate
 Theriamorpha - Gypsonictopidae
Gypsonictops lewisi Sahni 1972 eutherian
 Theriamorpha - Alphadontidae
Alphadon halleyi Sahni 1972 metatherian
Turgidodon russelli1 Fox 1979 metatherian
 Theriamorpha - Picopsidae
Falepetrus barwini n. sp. Clemens and Lillegraven 1986 mammal
Actinopteri
 Amiiformes - Amiidae
Melvius sp.2 Bryant 1987 bowfin