Dino Ray UW V-79033: Lancian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Ceratopsidae
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Ceratopsidae indet.
Marsh 1888
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Breithaupt 1982 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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cf. Thoracosaurus sp.
Leidy 1852
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Breithaupt 1982 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Mammalia
- Multituberculata
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Cimexomys minor
Sloan and Van Valen 1965
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1 specimen | |||||||||
UW 17979, isolated right M1 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Cimolodontidae
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Cimolodon nitidus
Marsh 1889
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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
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1 specimen | |||||||||
UW 15583, right dentary fragment with p4 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Neoplagiaulacidae
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? Neoplagiaulacidae indet.
Ameghino 1890
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1 specimen | |||||||||
UW20136, isolated right m1 | ||||||||||
Parikimys carpenteri
Wilson et al. 2010
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1 specimen | |||||||||
UW 20162, isolated right p4 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Cimolomyidae
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Meniscoessus cf. robustus
(Marsh 1889)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
UW 20157, right p4 | ||||||||||
Paressonodon nelsoni
Wilson et al. 2010
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1 specimen | |||||||||
UW17377, isolated right M1 | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
- Rhinobatidae
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Myledaphus bipartitus
Cope 1876
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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] |