Also known as East of Wind Cave National Park; Globidens dakotensis type locality
Where: Custer County, South Dakota (43.6° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 49.4° N, 71.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Sharon Springs Member (Pierre Shale Formation), Early/Lower Campanian to Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Clark, W. D. and P. F. Turbull; reposited in the FMNH
Primary reference: D. A. Russell. 1964. The Skull of American Mosasaurs. 1-386 [M. Carrano/H. Street/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 107676: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 13.04.2011, edited by Philip Mannion
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Taxonomic list
Gnathostomata | |
Osteichthyes indet. bony fish | |
Reptilia | |
Platecarpus cf. somenensis Thevenin 1896 mosasaur
Globidens dakotensis n. sp. Russell 1975 mosasaur FMNH PR 846 - type (skull [lacking mandibles and ectopterygoids], cervical vertebrae 1-7, and dorsal vertebrae 1-4)
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Pterosauria indet. pterosaur | |
Aves | |
Hesperornis sp. Marsh 1872 bird | |
Reptilia | |
? Plesiosauria indet. de Blainville 1835 plesiosaur | |
"Toxochelys browni" = Toxochelys latiremis
"Toxochelys browni" = Toxochelys latiremis Cope 1873 turtle |