Dumbbell Hill, Silver Tip Gulch: Lancian, Wyoming
collected by J. Dyer 1947
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Osteichthyes indet.
(Huxley 1880)
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Dalman 2013 | |||||||||
| "numerous fish scales" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Alphadontidae
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Alphadon cf. marshi
Simpson 1927
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Mammalia
- Multituberculata
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Cimexomys sp.
Sloan and Van Valen 1965
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= Cimolodonta indet.
McKenna 1975
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Cimolomyidae
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Cimolomys gracilis
Marsh 1889
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Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Neoplagiaulacidae
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Mesodma formosa
(Marsh 1889)
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Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Cimolodontidae
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Cimolodon nitidus
Marsh 1889
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Reptilia
- Tyrannosauridae
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Tyrannosaurus rex
Osborn 1905
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Dalman 2013 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| YPM VPPU 016516 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Lacertilia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Dalman 2013 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Park |
| Coordinates: | 44.9° North, 108.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 52.2° North, 83.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 | *Epoch: | Senonian |
| Key time interval: | Lancian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Lance | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "at the base of the Lance Formation in the Little Polecat Anticline, and is located below the Sage Point and the Rock Bench Quarry." | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | massive sandstone |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,selective quarrying,surface (in situ),survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | YPM | ||
| Collectors: | J. Dyer | Collection dates: | 1947 |
| Collection method comments: orig. discovered by Husky Oil Company prospecting party | |||
| Taxonomic list comments:same as list of Clemens et al. 1979 | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 14526 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, M. Carrano | Enterer: | J. Alroy, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2013-10-24 15:53:45 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 6201. | P. D. Gingerich, K. D. Rose, and D. W. Krause. 1980. Early Cenozoic mammalian faunas of the Clark's Fork Basin-Polecat Bench area, northwestern Wyoming. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 24:51-68 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 48569 | S. G. Dalman. 2013. New examples of Tyrannosaurus rex from the Lance Formation of Wyoming, United States. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 54(2):241-254 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |