Late for Lunch (UW V-81016) (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

• "a moderately cemented, plant-rich channel sandstone set between low-grade lignite layers. The fossiliferous layer is only 10-15 cm thick and extends laterally less than 10 m."

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

• NISP 4 (based on catalog numbers)
Mammalia
 Allotheria -
Multituberculata indet. Cope 1884 multituberculate
 Theriamorpha -
Theria indet. Parker and Haswell 1897 mammal