Where: Grand County, Colorado (40.1° N, 106.4° W: paleocoordinates 46.8° N, 76.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Baculites compressus - Baculites cuneatus ammonoid zone, Pierre Shale Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an unnamed member of the Pierre Shale, which lies between the Carter Sandstone Member and the Gunsight Pass Member. AGE: Late Campanian, on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 116 m above the top of the Carter Sandstone Member.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, concretionary, silty shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, concretion, original calcite, replaced with calcite

Collected by Harries in 2002-2005

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: P. Harries and students, 2004-2005. REPOSITORY: University of Colorado (UCB).

Primary reference: L. A. Sava. 2007. The molluscan and brachiopod fauna of the Late Cretaceous Pierre Shale (Baculites compressus/Baculites cuneatus biozones) near Kremmling, Colorado. A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science 1-111 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162249: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.09.2014

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