Where: Fergus County, Montana (47.7° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 54.7° N, 75.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Woodhawk Member (Judith River Formation), Middle Campanian to Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by R. Rogers, Y. Tulu in 2002
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),
Primary reference: Y. Tulu and R. R. Rogers. 2004. Late Cretaceous chondrichthyans from the Woodhawk bonebed, Judith River Formation (Campanian), Fergus County, Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(3, suppl.):123A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 177498: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.03.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Ischyodus sp. Egerton 1843 plownose chimaera | |
Squatirhina sp. Casier 1947 ray | |
Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856 ray
Ischyrhiza avonicola Estes 1964 ray | |
"Ptychotrygon hooveri" = Texatrygon hooveri, Ptychotrygon triangularis
"Ptychotrygon hooveri" = Texatrygon hooveri McNulty and Slaughter 1972 ray
Ptychotrygon triangularis Reuss 1845 ray | |
Protoplatyrhina renae Case 1978 guitarfish | |
cf. Myledaphus bipartitus Cope 1876 guitarfish | |
Cretorectolobus olsoni Case 1978 wobbegong | |
Hypotodus grandis Case 1978 sand tiger shark | |
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark | |
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Squalicorax kaupi Agassiz 1843 crow shark
cf. Squalicorax kaupi Agassiz 1843 crow shark | |
Protolamna sokolovi Cappetta 1980 mackerel shark | |
"Hybodus montanensis" = Meristodonoides montanensis
"Hybodus montanensis" = Meristodonoides montanensis Case 1978 elasmobranch |