Blackberry Prospect, UCMP V-5917: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Myledaphus bipartitus Cope 1876
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Ischyrhiza sp. Leidy 1856
Reptilia
Brachychampsa montana Gilmore 1911
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Anatosaurus sp. Lull and Wright 1942
synonym of Edmontosaurus
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Niobrara
Coordinates: 43.3° North, 104.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.7° North, 79.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Late/Upper Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lance
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:"cross stratification" sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "at the base of a gastropod-rich, cross-stratified sandstone"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Spatial orientation:random
Articulated whole bodies:none
Associated major elements:none
Fragmentation:frequent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),mechanical,sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:UCMP
Metadata
Database number:57163
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:K. Maguire
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-12-07 10:11:10 Last modified:2022-02-03 07:47:29
Access level:the public Released:2005-12-07 10:11:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

803. R. Estes. 1964. Fossil vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous Lance Formation, eastern Wyoming. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 49:1-187 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Carrano]