Blackberry Prospect, UCMP V-5917: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
- Rhinobatidae
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Myledaphus bipartitus
Cope 1876
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Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
- Sclerorhynchidae
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Ischyrhiza sp.
Leidy 1856
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Reptilia
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Brachychampsa montana
Gilmore 1911
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Anatosaurus sp.
Lull and Wright 1942
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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] |