Dino Ray UW V-79033 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.6° N, 108.6° W: paleocoordinates 48.9° N, 84.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lance Formation, Lancian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• The vertebrate fossil-bearing horizons occur in the upper half of the Lance Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; medium-grained, coarse, yellow sandstone

• The lithology is a resistant, buff-colored channel sandstone with medium-course and angular to subrounded grains

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the UW

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: S. L. Donohue, G. P. Wilson, and B. H. Breithaupt. 2013. Latest Cretaceous multituberculates of the Black Butte Station local fauna (Lance Formation, southwestern Wyoming), with implications for compositional differences among mammalian local faunas of the Western Interior. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(3):677-695 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45844: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.12.2004, edited by Roger Benson

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Ceratopsidae indet.
Ceratopsidae indet. Marsh 1888 ceratopsid
 Crocodylia - Gavialidae
cf. Thoracosaurus sp.
cf. Thoracosaurus sp. Leidy 1852 crocodilian
Mammalia
 Multituberculata - Cimolodontidae
Cimolodon nitidus, Cimolodon peregrinus n. sp.
Cimolodon nitidus Marsh 1889 multituberculate
UW 15582, left dentary fragment with p4; UW 20037, isolated right m2; UW 15125, isolated left M1; and UW 17376, isolated left M2
Cimolodon peregrinus n. sp. Donohue et al. 2013 multituberculate
UW 15583, right dentary fragment with p4
 Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
? Neoplagiaulacidae indet., Parikimys carpenteri
? Neoplagiaulacidae indet. Ameghino 1890 multituberculate
UW20136, isolated right m1
Parikimys carpenteri Wilson et al. 2010 multituberculate
UW 20162, isolated right p4
 Multituberculata -
Cimexomys minor
Cimexomys minor Sloan and Van Valen 1965 multituberculate
UW 17979, isolated right M1
 Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae
Meniscoessus cf. robustus, Paressonodon nelsoni
Meniscoessus cf. robustus Marsh 1889 multituberculate
UW 20157, right p4
Paressonodon nelsoni Wilson et al. 2010 multituberculate
UW17377, isolated right M1
Chondrichthyes
 Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Myledaphus bipartitus
Myledaphus bipartitus Cope 1876 guitarfish