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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
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Mammalia | |
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Paracimexomys priscus Lillegraven 1969 multituberculate | |
Cimolomys clarki Sahni 1972 multituberculate
Meniscoessus intermedius Fox 1976 multituberculate | |
"Mesodma primaeva" = Filikomys primaevus, Mesodma sp.
"Mesodma primaeva" = Filikomys primaevus Lambe 1902 multituberculate
Mesodma sp. Jepsen 1940 multituberculate | |
Gypsonictops lewisi Sahni 1972 eutherian | |
Alphadon halleyi Sahni 1972 metatherian | |
Falepetrus barwini n. sp.
Falepetrus barwini n. sp. Clemens and Lillegraven 1986 mammal | |
Actinopteri | |
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