Late for Lunch (UW V-81016): Judithian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Multituberculata
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Multituberculata indet.
Cope 1884
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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: | Hot Springs |
| Coordinates: | 43.8° North, 108.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 50.9° North, 76.6° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Altitude: | 1529 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: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Mesaverde |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | lignite |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "a moderately cemented, plant-rich channel sandstone set between low-grade lignite layers. The fossiliferous layer is only 10-15 cm thick and extends laterally less than 10 m." | |
| Environment: | "channel" |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Lagerst�tten type: | concentrate |
| Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,sieve,field collection |
| Collection size: | 4 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UW |
| Taxonomic list comments:NISP 4 (based on catalog numbers) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 14469 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2005-01-25 09:49:33 |
| 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] |