Old Number One (UW V-81036): Judithian, Wyoming
collected 1981

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
Theria indet. Parker and Haswell 1897
Actinopteri - Ichthyodectiformes - Ichthyodectidae
Xiphactinus vetus (Leidy 1856)
DeMar and Breithaupt 2008
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, 75.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
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:83.60000 - 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
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
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:UW
Collection dates:1981
Taxonomic list comments:NISP 1 (based on catalog numbers)
Metadata
Database number:14478
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Carrano Enterer:J. Alroy, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-05-15 00:00:00 Last modified:2010-12-09 16:09:29
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:

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]