OMNH V5: Judithian, Utah

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Albanerpetontidae indet. Fox and Naylor 1982
Gardner 2000 1 specimen
OMNH 23841
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Batrachosauroididae
Opisthotriton sp. Auffenberg 1961
Gardner et al. 2013 1 specimen
OMNH 67060
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela
Scapherpeton sp. Cope 1876
Gardner et al. 2013 3 specimens
UMNH VP 19187-88; OMNH 67046
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
cf. Eopelobates sp. Parker 1929
Gardner and DeMar 2013 2 specimens
OMNH 23837, maxilla
    = Anura informal indet. 1 Fischer von Waldheim 1813
Gardner et al. 2016
UMNH VP 18438*, maxilla
Scotiophryne pustulosa Estes 1969
Gardner et al. 2016 5 specimens
UMNH VP 18437, 18446, 18447, 18451, maxillae; OMNH 24150*, bulk lot of fragmentary skull bones
Theatonius sp. Fox 1976
Gardner and DeMar 2013 1 specimen
said to be new species
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae
? Cimolomyidae indet. Sloan and Van Valen 1965
Mammalia - Multituberculata
Cimexomys sp. Sloan and Van Valen 1965
Paracimexomys informal sp. B
Paracimexomys informal sp. C
"Paracimexomys" magnus (Sahni 1972)
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
Mesodma cf. hensleighi Lillegraven 1969
Mesodma cf. thompsoni Clemens 1964
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Cimolodontidae
Cimolodon informal sp. A
Cimolodon informal sp. B
? Cimolodon informal sp. C
said to be new
Mammalia
Paranyctoides informal sp. B
Cifelli 1990 3 specimens
OMNH 20180, 21977-78; = Kaiparowits species B
Mammalia - Gypsonictopidae
Gypsonictops informal sp. C
1 specimen
OMNH 21985
Mammalia - Stagodontidae
Eodelphis sp. Matthew 1916
Mammalia - Alphadontidae
Alphadon cf. attaragos Lillegraven and McKenna 1986
7 specimens
OMNH 20152, 20141-43, 20145-47
    = Alphadon attaragos Lillegraven and McKenna 1986
Cifelli 1990
identification questioned, but not changed by Johanson 1996b
Alphadon sp. Simpson 1927
7 specimens
    = Alphadon cf. sahnii Lillegraven and McKenna 1986
Cifelli 1990
OMNH 20185-86, 20150, 20138-40, 20144
Reptilia
cf. Anguimorpha indet. Fürbringer 1900
Nydam 2013 6 specimens
Osteoderms: OMNH 66063, 66071, 66072; UMNH VP 18057, 18058, 48060
Reptilia - Anguidae
Odaxosaurus priscus Gao and Fox 1996
Nydam 2013 5 specimens
OMNH 24176, jaw fragment; 24168, tooth; 18065, broken left maxilla; 19239, broken left dentary; 19240, broken left dentary
Odaxosaurus roosevelti n. sp. Nydam 2013
Nydam 2013 3 specimens
OMNH 30748 (holotype), posterior portion of left dentary; 30747, anterior portion of right maxilla; 24182, posterior portion of right maxilla
Reptilia
Platynota informal indet. Kaiparowits Morphotype J
Nydam 2013 1 specimen
OMNH 21838, large tooth
Reptilia - Xenosauridae
cf. Exostinus sp. Cope 1873
Nydam 2013 4 specimens
OMNH 66100, osteoderm; 66104, broken osteoderm; UMNH 18059, osteoderm; 18063, osteoderm
Reptilia
Coniophis sp. Marsh 1892
Nydam 2013 3 specimens
UMNH VP 19237, anterior caudal vertebra; 19238, trunk vertebra; 18061, broken trunk vertebra
Scincomorpha informal indet. Kaiparowits Morphotype E
Nydam 2013 1 specimen
OMNH 63529, broken right dentary?
Scincomorpha informal indet. Kaiparowits Morphotype G
Nydam 2013 1 specimen
OMNH 21167, broken left dentary
Scincomorpha indet. Camp 1923
Nydam 2013 3 specimens
Osteoderms: OMNH 66073, 66089, 18056
Reptilia - Contogeniidae
Palaeoscincosaurus pharkidodon Nydam and Fitzpatrick 2009
Nydam and Fitzpatrick 2009 2 specimens
OMNH 23861, 64194
Reptilia - Chamopsiidae
Manangyasaurus saueri McCord 1998
McCord 1998 2 specimens
OMNH 21832, 23826
cf. Leptochamops sp. Estes 1964
Nydam and Voci 2007 3 specimens
OMNH 23863, 64151, 64152, fragmentary jaws
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Utah County:Garfield
Coordinates: 37.8° North, 111.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.7° North, 82.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Campanian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 7
*Epoch:Senonian
*Local age/stage:Judithian
Key time interval: Judithian
Age range of interval: 83.6 - 72.1 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kaiparowits
Local section:Kaiparowits Local bed:9
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: said to be Judithian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Rock censused:350 kg
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:entire fauna from one locality, which is about 470 m above OMNV V6 and V9
there are 18 therian specimens, but no reliable estimate for the multituberculates is obtainable; see note above
"Eodelphis sp." omitted by Eaton et al. 1999
Metadata
Also known as:TB8, MNA 1004-1; UMNH VP Loc. 108; 14 km northeast of Henrieville
Database number:14467
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Carrano, P. Holroyd, P. Barrett Enterer:J. Alroy, M. Carrano, T. Cleary, P. Holroyd
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-04-30 00:00:00 Last modified:2023-08-21 13:22:03
Access level:the public Released:1994-04-30 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
1412. J. G. Eaton and R. L. Cifelli. 1988. Preliminary report on Late Cretaceous mammals of the Kaiparowits Plateau, southern Utah. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 26(2):45-55 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

1205 R. L. Cifelli. 1990. Cretaceous mammals from southern Utah. I. Marsupials from the Kaiparowits Formation (Judithian). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 10(3):295-319 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]
1208 R. L. Cifelli. 1990. Cretaceous mammals from southern Utah. IV. Eutherian mammals from the Wahweap (Aquilean) and Kaiparowits (Judithian) Formations. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 10(3):346-360 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]
42675 J. D. Gardner. 2000. Albanerpetontid amphibians from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian and Maastrichtian) of North America. Geodiversitas 22(3):349-388 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
65027 J. D. Gardner and D. G. DeMar. 2013. Mesozoic and Palaeocene lissamphibian assemblages of North America: a comprehensive review. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 93:459-515 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Carrano]
83843 J. D. Gardner, J. G. Eaton, and R. L. Cifelli. 2013. Preliminary report on salamanders (Lissamphibia; Caudata) from the Late Cretaceous (late Cenomanian–late Campanian of southern Utah, U.S.A. In A. L. Titus & M. A. Loewen (ed.), At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah 237-272 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
64015 J. D. Gardner, C. M. Redman, and R. L. Cifelli. 2016. The hopping dead: Late Cretaceous frogs from the middle-late Campanian (Judithian) of western North America. Fossil Imprint 72(1-2):78-107 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Carrano]
26292ETE R. D. McCord. 1998. A new genus and species of Cretaceous polyglyphanodontine lizard (Squamata, Teiidae) from the Kaiparowits Plateau, Utah. In Y. Tomida, L. J. Flynn, & L. L. Jacobs (eds.), Advances in Vertebrate Paleontology and Geochronology. National Science Museum Monographs 14:281-292 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
60263 R. L. Nydam. 2013. Lizards and snakes from the Cenomanian through Campanian of southern Utah: filling the gap in the fossil record of Squamata from the Late Cretaceous of the Western Interior of North America. In A. L. Titus & M. A. Loewen (ed.), At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah 370-423 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary/M. Carrano]
24301ETE R. L. Nydam, J. G. Eaton, and J. T. Sankey. 2007. New taxa of transversely-toothed lizards (Squamata: Scincomorpha) and new information on the evolutionary history of "teiids". Journal of Paleontology 81(3):538-549 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
31563ETE R. L. Nydam and B. M. Fitzpatrick. 2009. The occurrence of Contogenys-like lizards in the Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary of the Western Interior of the U.S.A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(3):677-701 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion]
25623ETE R. L. Nydam and G. E. Voci. 2007. Teiid-like scincomorphan lizards from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of southern Utah. Journal of Herpetology 41(2):211-219 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]