Where: Hot Springs County, Wyoming (43.8° N, 108.4° W: paleocoordinates 50.9° N, 76.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Mesaverde Formation, Judithian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "channel"; lithified sandstone and lignite
Size class: mesofossils
Reposited in the UW
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
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 14469: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Multituberculata indet. Cope 1884 multituberculate | |
Theria indet. Parker and Haswell 1897 mammal |