12 mi NE of Worland (AMNH): Judithian, Wyoming
collected 1978
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Cimolomyidae
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Cimolomys clarki
Sahni 1972
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Mammalia
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Theria indet.
Parker and Haswell 1897
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Washakie |
| Coordinates: | 44.0° North, 108.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 50.9° North, 76.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 | *Epoch: | Senonian |
| Key time interval: | Judithian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Mesaverde |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | intraclastic,yellow poorly lithified argillaceous sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "friable, yellow channel sandstones with occasional stringers of clay galls and clay clasts" | |
| Environment: | "channel" |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Disassociated major elements: | many |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,sieve,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | AMNH | Collection dates: | 1978 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 14431 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1994-07-27 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2008-04-10 13:03:16 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-07-27 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |