Genus: Ninumbeehan SO, KUFNER, PARDO, EDWARDS, PRICE, BEVIT, LeCLAIR-DIAZ, ST. CLAIR, MANN, TERAN & LOVELACE, 2024
Etymology:
The name results from a collaborative parnership between the authors of this publication and the seventh-grade students from the Fort Washakie School. From the Shoshone language, Ninumbee is the name for the mountain-dwelling Little People who hold an important place in Shoshone culture (among osthers), -han is the possive affix indicating an affiliation with the Ninumbee.
Species: dookoodukah SO, KUFNER, PARDO, EDWARDS, PRICE, BEVIT, LeCLAIR-DIAZ, ST. CLAIR, MANN, TERAN & LOVELACE, 2024
Etymology: Dookoo, "flesh" and Dukah, "eater": Altogether, Ninumbeehan dookoodukah means 'Little People's flesh eater'. honouring the Little Peple and referencing the sharp teeth of the fossil . Our intent is to pay tribut to the Eastern Shoshone people, thier language and the land to which they belong.
Holotype: UWGM 7264
Locality: Serendipity site, near the town of Dubois, Fremont County, Wyoming.
Horizon: Serendipity beds, Jelm Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Mid-Late Triassic.
Material: A well-preserved partial anterior skeleton including teh skull, mandibles and pectoral girdle elements.
Note: Found in a burrow.
Paratypes:
UWGM 2164: A slightly defored complete skull preserved with left adn right mandiublar rami, pectoral girdle adn disarticulated postcrania.
UWGM 5856: A skull with mandibles, a disarticulated rostrum and right 'check' and several postrcarnial elemtns including ribs and intercetnra.
UWGM 7040: Partial skull with right lateral side and jaw preserved and an articulated pectorial gridle.
Note: Found in burrows.