Where: Howard County, Arkansas (33.8° N, 93.6° W: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 71.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Nacatoch Sand Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Formation contains lower Maastrichtian Nostoceras alternatum zone ammonites elsewhere in Arkansas
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by L.W. Stephenson; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1953. American Upper Cretaceous Echinoidea. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 254-A:1-44 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 197650: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.11.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Hemiaster wetherbyi de Loriol 1887 heart urchin |