Case Site 8:30 (DUPLICATE): Judithian, Wyoming
collected 1979
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Washakie |
Coordinates: | 44.1° North, 107.8° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 51.0° North, 75.8° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Altitude: | 1389 meters | ||||
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: | 83.50000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Mesaverde |
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 |
Lagerst�tten type: | concentrate |
Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Disassociated major elements: | all |
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: | 1979 |
Taxonomic list comments:NISP 3 (based on catalog numbers) |
Metadata
Database number: | 14444 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2010-12-09 16:21:57 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-05-15 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] |
Secondary references:
17857 | ETE | D. G. DeMar, Jr. and B. H. Breithaupt. 2006. The nonmammalian vertebrate microfossil assemblages of the Mesaverde Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Campanian) of the Wind River and Bighorn Basins, Wyoming. In S. G. Lucas and R. M. Sullivan (eds.), Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35:33-54 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |