List of the Mesozoic life of Wyoming

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This list of the Mesozoic life of Wyoming contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Wyoming and are between 252.17 and 66 million years of age.

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Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Jeletzkytes Ammonite Jeletzkytes.jpg
Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Jeletzkytes

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Diagram illustrating the size of the Late Jurassic long-necked dinosaur Kaatedocus with an anachronistic human to scale Kaatedocus siberi size.png
Diagram illustrating the size of the Late Jurassic long-necked dinosaur Kaatedocus with an anachronistic human to scale

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Living Woodwardia ferns Wradicans.jpg
Living Woodwardia ferns

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Life restoration of the Cretaceous bony fish Xiphactinus XiphactinusDB cropped.png
Life restoration of the Cretaceous bony fish Xiphactinus

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Fossil of the Early Triassic-Eocene cycad-like frond Zamites Zamites mariposana.jpg
Fossil of the Early Triassic-Eocene cycad-like frond Zamites

References

  1. 1 2 Scott Hartman; Mickey Mortimer; William R. Wahl; Dean R. Lomax; Jessica Lippincott; David M. Lovelace (2019). "A new paravian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of North America supports a late acquisition of avian flight". PeerJ. 7: e7247. doi: 10.7717/peerj.7247 . PMC   6626525 . PMID   31333906.
  2. 1 2 Neil H. Landman; W. James Kennedy; Neal L. Larson; Joyce C. Grier; James W. Grier; Tom Linn (2019). "Description of two species of Hoploscaphites (Ammonoidea, Ancyloceratina) from the Upper Cretaceous (Lower Maastrichtian) of the U.S. Western Interior". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 2019 (427): 1–72. doi:10.1206/0003-0090.427.1.1. hdl:2246/6926.
  3. Davis, B. M. (2007). "A revision of 'pediomyid' marsupials from the Late Cretaceous of North America" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 52 (2): 217–256.
  4. Johnson, Kirk. (2002). Megaflora of the Hell Creek and lower Fort Union Formations in the western Dakotas: Vegetational response to climate change, the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary event, and rapid marine transgression. 10.1130/0-8137-2361-2.329.