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The Mowry Shale or Fish-scale Beds because of the abundance of fish scales, is a dark-gray, siliceous shale that weathers silver gray; it is 10-70 m thick. 40Ar/39Ar of sanidine from a bentonite yielded an age of 97.17 +/-0.69 Ma, thus is
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Isolated, lenticular accumulations of fish bones, scales, teeth and coprolites are thought to represent storm lag deposits formed by winnowing of the seafloor and concentration of the bones in bottom scours. The following fish species have been identified from the Mowry: an unnamed caturid, an
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Kowallis, B.J., 2005, Storm deposited fish debris in the Cretaceous Mowry Shale near Vernal, Utah. In Dehler, C.M., Pederson, J.L., Sprinkel, D.A., and Kowallis, B.J., editors, Uinta Mountain geology: Utah Geological Association Publication 33, p.
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Stewart, J.D. and Hakel, M., 2006. Ichthyofauna of the Mowry Shale (Early
Cenomanian) of Wyoming. In, Lucas, S.G., and Sullivan, R.M. (editors), Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35,
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Although the Mowry had been considered to be a lower
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