North of Redbird: Campanian, Wyoming
collected by J. D. Bump, H. Martin

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Platecarpus ictericus (Cope 1870)
1 specimen
synonym of Platecarpus tympaniticus
SDSM 30139, skull
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Niobrara
Coordinates: 43.3° North, 104.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.2° North, 71.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Campanian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Pierre Shale
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: lower Pierre
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Abundance in sediment:rare
Fragmentation:occasional
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Collection size:1 specimens
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:SDSM
Collectors:J. D. Bump, H. Martin
Metadata
Database number:107675
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:H. Street
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-04-13 06:11:47 Last modified:2011-04-12 16:11:47
Access level:the public Released:2011-04-13 06:11:47
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

35745.ETE D. A. Russell. 1964. The Skull of American Mosasaurs. 1-386 [M. Carrano/H. Street/P. Wagner]