Black Hills [Timber Lake Mbr, Fox Hills Fm]: Late Maastrichtian, South Dakota

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Nephropidae
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Varicorbula crassimarginata (Meek and Hayden 1860)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia subquadrata (Evans and Shumard 1857)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellinimera scitula (Meek and Hayden 1856)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Tancredia americana (Meek and Hayden 1857)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Dosiniopsis deweyi (Meek and Hayden 1856)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Cymbophora warrenana (Meek and Hayden 1856)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Glossidae
Clisocolus moreauensis (Meerk and Hayden 1861)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Galeommatidae
Bivalvia - Poromyida - Cuspidariidae
Cuspidaria ventricosa (Meek and Hayden 1856)
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Goniomya americana Meek and Hayden 1856
Bivalvia - Thraciida - Periplomatidae
Periploma subgracile (Whitfield 1880)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon (Cosmetodon) sulcatinus (Evans and Shumard 1857)
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Tenuipteria fibrosa (Meek and Hayden 1856)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma (Hypoxytoma) nebrascana (Evans and Shumard 1857)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea translucida Meek and Hayden 1857
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Pseudoptera subtortuosa (Meek and Hayden 1856)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae
Phelopteria linguaeformis (Evans and Shumard 1854)
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus aff. attenuatus (Meek and Hayden 1857)
Modiolus galpinianus (Evans and Shumard 1854)
Modiolus meeki (Evans and Shumard 1857)
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Crenellidae
Crenella elegantula Meek and Hayden 1862
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Malletia evansi (Meek and Hayden 1857)
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana (Jupiteria) scitula (Meek and Hayden 1856)
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula cancellata Meek and Hayden 1857
Nucula planomarginata (Meek and Hayden 1857)
Bivalvia - Solemyida - Solemyidae
Solemya subplicata (Meek and Hayden 1856)
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Scaphandridae
Ellipsoscapha sp. Stephenson 1941
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Gastropoda - Vanikoridae
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Nonacteonina sp. (Stephenson 1941)
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Belemnitellidae
Belemnitella bulbosa Meek and Hayden 1856
Cephalopoda - Vampyromorpha - Actinosepiidae
Actinosepia canadensis Whiteaves 1897
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Sphenodiscidae
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Baculitidae
unclassified
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:South Dakota
Coordinates: 45.1° North, 100.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:54.4° North, 60.4° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 8
Key time interval: Late Maastrichtian Ammonoid zone:  Hoploscaphites nicolletii
Age range of interval: 72.2 - 66 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Fox Hills Member:Timber Lake
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Timber Lake Mbr of the Fox Hills Fm, which overlies the Pierre Shale, and is overlain by the Hell Creek Fm. AGE: Late Maastrichtian, on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy; Hoploscaphites nicolletii-Jeletzkytes nebrascensis zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within the member.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Marine siliciclastic.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:YPM
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Multiple collectors. REPOSITORY: Many repositories, including YPM.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to scaphitid ammonoids, and other taxa from secondary publications. NOMENCLATURE: An authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:88511
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-04-13 17:24:27 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2009-04-13 17:24:27
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
29676. N. H. Landman and K. M. Waage. 1993. Scaphitid ammonites of the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Fox Hills Formation in South Dakota and Wyoming. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 215:1-257 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]