Dino Ray UW V-79033: Lancian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Ceratopsidae
Ceratopsidae indet. Marsh 1888
Breithaupt 1982
Reptilia
cf. Thoracosaurus sp. Leidy 1852
Breithaupt 1982 1 specimen
Mammalia - Multituberculata
Cimexomys minor Sloan and Van Valen 1965
1 specimen
UW 17979, isolated right M1
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Cimolodontidae
Cimolodon nitidus Marsh 1889
4 specimens
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
1 specimen
UW 15583, right dentary fragment with p4
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
? Neoplagiaulacidae indet. Ameghino 1890
1 specimen
UW20136, isolated right m1
Parikimys carpenteri Wilson et al. 2010
1 specimen
UW 20162, isolated right p4
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae
Meniscoessus cf. robustus (Marsh 1889)
1 specimen
UW 20157, right p4
Paressonodon nelsoni Wilson et al. 2010
1 specimen
UW17377, isolated right M1
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Myledaphus bipartitus Cope 1876
Breithaupt 1982
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Sweetwater
Coordinates: 41.6° North, 108.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.9° North, 84.5° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:2072 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Lancian
Age range of interval:70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lance
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: The vertebrate fossil-bearing horizons occur in the upper half of the Lance Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:medium,coarse,yellow sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: The lithology is a resistant, buff-colored channel sandstone with medium-course and angular to subrounded grains
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Lagerst�tten type:concentrate
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Articulated whole bodies:none
Associated major elements:none
Disassociated major elements:many
Disassociated minor elements:many
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:UW
Metadata
Database number:45844
Authorizer:M. Carrano, R. Benson Enterer:M. Carrano, R. Benson
Modifier:R. Benson Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-12-09 13:00:21 Last modified:2013-05-08 04:22:21
Access level:the public Released:2004-12-09 13:00:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

46718. 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]

Secondary references:

1129 B. H. Breithaupt. 1982. Paleontology and paleoecology of the Lance Formation (Maastrichtian), east flank of Rock Springs Uplift, Sweetwater County, Wyoming. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 21(2):123-151 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]