Cottonwood Gullies: Late/Upper Campanian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus montanensis Case 1978
recombined as Meristodonoides montanensis
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
Odontaspis steineri n. sp.
Pseudodontaspis herbsti n. gen., n. sp.
Hypotodus grandis Case 1978
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Archaeolamnidae
Plicatolamna arcuata (Woodward 1894)
synonym of Archaeolamna kopingensis
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Orectolobidae
Cretorectolobus olsoni Case 1978
Chondrichthyes - Squalidae
Centrophoroides worlandensis n. sp.
Chondrichthyes - Synechodontiformes - Palaeospinacidae
Synechodus turneri n. sp. Case 1987
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Myledaphus bipartitus Cope 1876
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes
Protoplatyrhina renae Case 1978
Mammalia
Theria indet. Parker and Haswell 1897
Lillegraven and McKenna 1986
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Washaki
Coordinates: 44.0° North, 107.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.9° North, 75.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mesaverde Member:Teapot Sandstone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Environment:estuary/bay
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Case Estuary Site 1
Database number:70253
Authorizer:J. Kriwet, M. Carrano Enterer:W. Glaeser, M. Carrano
Modifier:W. Glaeser Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-03-20 10:11:15 Last modified:2007-03-30 13:21:09
Access level:the public Released:2007-03-20 10:11:15
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
23339. G. R. Case. 1987. A new selachian fauna from the late Campanian of Wyoming (Teapot Sandstone Member, Mesaverde Formation, Big Horn Basin). Palaeontographica Abteilung A 197(Lfg. 1-3):1-37 [J. Kriwet/W. Glaeser/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

2237 J. A. Lillegraven and M. C. McKenna. 1986. Fossil mammals from the "Mesaverde" Formation (Late Cretaceous, Judithian) of the Bighorn and Wind River basins, Wyoming, with definitions of Late Cretaceous North American Land-Mammal "Ages". American Museum Novitates 2840:1-68 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]