Old Number One (UW V-81036): Judithian, Wyoming
collected 1981
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
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Theria indet.
Parker and Haswell 1897
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Actinopteri
- Ichthyodectiformes
- Ichthyodectidae
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Xiphactinus vetus
(Leidy 1856)
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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 Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 | *Epoch: | Senonian |
| Key time interval: | Judithian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.6 - 72.1 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:
| 34478 | ETE | 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] |