Old Number Four (UW V-81038): Judithian, Wyoming
collected 1981

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Alphadontidae
    = Alphadon halleyi Sahni 1972
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Multituberculata
Multituberculata indet. Cope 1884
Actinopteri - Ichthyodectiformes - Ichthyodectidae
Xiphactinus vetus (Leidy 1856)
DeMar and Breithaupt 2006 1 specimen
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:1344 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
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
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Collection size:5 specimens
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:UW
Collection dates:1981
Taxonomic list comments:NISP 5 (based on catalog numbers)
Metadata
Database number:14479
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Carrano Enterer:J. Alroy, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-07-27 00:00:00 Last modified:2010-12-09 16:10:33
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]

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]