Jerry Case Five: Judithian, Wyoming
collected by G. Case 1978, 1981

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Polycotylidae
Dolichorhynchops sp. Williston 1902
DeMar and Breithaupt 2006 1 specimen
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae
Richardoestesia isosceles Sankey 2001
DeMar and Breithaupt 2006 1 specimen
Mammalia - Dryolestidae
Dryolestidae indet. Marsh 1879
Mammalia - Alphadontidae
Alphadon russelli Fox 1979
    = Turgidodon russelli Fox 1979
Alroy 2002
Alphadon halleyi Sahni 1972
includes "A. sahnii" (1 measurement)
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae
Cimolomys clarki Sahni 1972
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Washakie
Coordinates: 44.1° North, 107.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.0° North, 75.7° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:1402 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:many
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Collection size:34 specimens
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:AMNH
Collectors:G. Case Collection dates:1978, 1981
Taxonomic list comments:NISP 34 (based on catalog numbers)
Metadata
Also known as:UW V-81032; G. R. Case no. MV496, 499, 516-517
Database number:14465
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Carrano Enterer:J. Alroy, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-04-30 00:00:00 Last modified:2010-12-09 16:11:38
Access level:the public Released:1994-04-30 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:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
34478ETE D. G. DeMar and B. H. Breithaupt. 2008. Terrestrial and aquatic vertebrate paleocommunities of the Mesaverde Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Campanian) of the Wind River and Bighorn Basins, Wyoming, USA. In J. T. Sankey & S. Baszio (ed.), Vertebrate Microfossil Assemblages: Their Role in Paleoecology and Paleobiogeography 78-103 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
17857ETE 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]